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      Cry of the City

      Released Sep 29, 1948 1 hr. 35 min. Crime Drama List
      93% 14 Reviews Tomatometer 85% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Martin Rome (Richard Conte) is a cop killer and jewel thief who escapes from prison, with two police detectives, Candella (Victor Mature) and Collins (Fred Clark), hot on his trail. Not only is Rome wanted for murder, he is now also accused of masterminding a major jewel robbery. On the run, Rome is helped by a sleazy lawyer (Berry Kroeger) and two girlfriends, Teena (Debra Paget) and Brenda (Shelley Winters). Rome's plan: recover the hidden jewels from his lawyer and leave the country. Read More Read Less

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      Angelo C New York back in the day. Love Victor Mature, believed he was a NYPD lieutenant. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/17/22 Full Review Audience Member Big buildings! How much weigh wonder Blobbo. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review paul d Robert Siodmak's Cry of the City is a great noir crime thriller and human drama. The movie manages to develop many different characters, so that we feel we know them and understand their point of view. It's set in New York's Italian immigrant community, and a great touch of realism is that many of the supporting cast are real Italians speaking genuine Italian. Victor Mature and especially Richard Conte do a fine job. They are genuine and believable and manage to pull off a morality tale without making it black and white, keeping the nuance and complexity of real people. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review s r A good film noir with a good plot, characters, acting and direction. The big woman masseuse "with the special touch wasted on fat, rich women" was my favorite part. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Another film noir gem that goes largely unnoticed by many fans of the genre. There are spectacular on-location scenes (New York), solid performances by the leads Victor Mature and Richard Conte and a storyline that treats the subject matter with depth and little notice to Hollywood tropes. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Tom M Great noire . Conte and Mature are very good. A young Shelley Winters is beautiful in a small part. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/16/20 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      David Jenkins Little White Lies The beauty of Siodmak's film is how it objectively observes how a man acts with the spectre of death on his shoulder. Rated: 5/5 Apr 23, 2015 Full Review Kate Muir Times (UK) In luscious blacks and whites, this film noir thriller takes place in Little Italy, New York, and is a precursor to the cinema of Scorsese, with a touch of Hitchcock in its affectionate embrace of man's dark side. Rated: 4/5 Apr 16, 2015 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian The sequences on the rainy, neon-lit streets of downtown Manhattan are brought off with exhilarating flair and the two men's closeup confrontations have power and punch. Rated: 4/5 Apr 16, 2015 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...a deliberately-paced drama that grows more and more compelling as it unfolds... Rated: 3/4 Feb 19, 2021 Full Review Adam Lowes CineVue Bold, uncompromising and brimming with powerful performances, Cry of the City is something of a forgotten classic Rated: 4/5 Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Sean Axmaker Seanax.com The urban atmosphere of city traffic and the scuffed and worn authenticity of real storefronts and sidewalks gives the film a charge of realism but Siodmak forgoes docurealism for his beloved expressionist style. Jan 28, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Martin Rome (Richard Conte) is a cop killer and jewel thief who escapes from prison, with two police detectives, Candella (Victor Mature) and Collins (Fred Clark), hot on his trail. Not only is Rome wanted for murder, he is now also accused of masterminding a major jewel robbery. On the run, Rome is helped by a sleazy lawyer (Berry Kroeger) and two girlfriends, Teena (Debra Paget) and Brenda (Shelley Winters). Rome's plan: recover the hidden jewels from his lawyer and leave the country.
      Director
      Robert Siodmak
      Genre
      Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 29, 1948, Original
      Release Date (DVD)
      Oct 8, 2013