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- Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. However, Mary's brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind.
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On Dangerous Ground is a 1951 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino, and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the 1945 novel Mad with Much Heart by Gerald Butler.
Eleven years on the job as a NYPD police detective in dealing with criminals on a day in and day out basis has made Jim Wilson a cruel, bitter man, he using excessive force to beat out information from suspects.
On Dangerous Ground: Directed by Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino. With Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper. Rough, violent city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain who sends him upstate to a snowy mountain town to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
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- Drama, Film-Noir
- Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
- 1952-02-12
- Not Quite Genre
- Behind The Camera
- Conclusion: on Dangerous Ground
With a run-of-the-mill opener, we meet Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan), a cynical city cop who has a violence burning inside of him. After an outburst where he beats a suspect, the chief reassigns him to a case upstate. The rain-soaked city streets are traded in for snowy mountains and an isolated town. He’s sent to find the murderer of a young girl, who’...
On Dangerous Ground fits nicely into Ray‘s oeuvre. Like In a Lonely Place (1951), a lonely and violent man is given a chance to show his empathy through the help of a woman. Like They Live by Night (1949) or Johnny Guitar (1954), the film opens with all the tropes of a genre but then quickly reveals itself to be something else entirely, some kind o...
Like the characters they lovingly highlighted in their films, Ray and Lupinoexisted on the fringes. They existed in some ways just at the right moment, the twilight of the studio system, which allowed them to operate with its industrious resources for relatively low budgets and little oversight. But then again, they were perhaps too early to the ga...
Sep 10, 2012 · A superb noir thriller with a difference. Ray's second film with producer John Houseman (the first being They Live By Night) starts off in the sinister urban jungle, with Ryan's cop...
Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) is New York police detective on the edge. Hardened and embittered by his years of dealing with the lowest forms of criminal the city has to offer, Wilson becomes...
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- Crime, Drama
Overview. A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer. Nicholas Ray. Director. Gerald Butler. Novel. A.I. Bezzerides. Screenplay. Full Cast & Crew. Social. Reviews 1. Discussions 1.
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