Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Jul 14, 2021 · Ashamed that his father lived a life of crime, hard-boiled New York City cop Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) has a reputation for being too tough on criminals. So ...

    • 96 min
    • 63.5K
    • Marvelous Movies
  2. It's one of the last truly great noirs, before the genre gave way to more simplistic police procedurals and, ahem, black and white thrillers. Here, everything is shadow and uncertainty, with deeply flawed characters whom we can nonetheless root for. It's a must for genre fans and for anyone with an interest in the history of cinema.

  3. Gary Merrill plays crime boss Tommy Scalisi, who will come to blows with Dixon before all is said and done. LaShelle paints with bars of light that turn a variety of sets (the precinct building, the attorney’s office) into metaphorical prison cells, while the lonely, urban atmosphere creeps across every stoop and down every alley as if night ...

  4. Dec 21, 2005 · Review: Where the Sidewalk Ends. Otto Preminger accentuates not only the brutality but also the desperate emotional impact of his story’s bursts of sudden violence. For his last picture at 20th Century Fox, Otto Preminger reteamed his Laura and Whirlpool stars Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney for Where the Sidewalk Ends, an efficient, bleak noir ...

  5. 6️⃣🆙️ Recommended⚠️ 🏅🏅Fitch 🐐 (G.O.AT) Award🏅🏅 Go read my spoiler analysis of this film, to see my interpretation of the the story! Where The Sidewalk Ends is an effective noir gangster drama helmed by the great Otto Preminger, with the screenplay penned by Ben Hecht. This film delves into the seedy underworld following Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) a no nonsense ...

  6. W here the Sidewalk Ends was the last in a series of films that director Otto Preminger made under contract with Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s. It is a quintessential film noir, furnished with all of the familiar noir motifs - cynical cops sparring with tough gangsters, gambling rooms draped with beautiful women, and an unmistakable stench of masculine existentialist angst.

  7. Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1950 Film Noir, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney. The screenplay by Ben Hecht was adapted from the 1948 novel Night Cry by William L. Stuart. Mark Dixon (Andrews) is a violent NYPD cop haunted by his father's criminal past.

  1. People also search for