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starring: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Esy Morales directed by: Robert Siodmak See Larger Image List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $10.49 You Save: $4.49 (30%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $3.05 Third Party New Price: $3.43 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9781417011605 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 1417011602 Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 06, 2004 Running Time: 88 minutes Sales Rank: 21153 Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 1949 Related Items: This Gun For Hire (Universal Noir Collection) Black Angel (Universal Noir Collection) The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection) The Woman in the Window (MGM Film Noir) Kiss of Death (Fox Film Noir) see more Editorial Review: Amazon.com: A certified film noir classic, Criss Cross embraces the genre's darkness with an uncompromising tale of doomed lovers and multilayered betrayal. Reuniting with director Robert Siodmak after their success with The Killers, Burt Lancaster plays a love-struck loser who seals his fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgment. She encourages their torrid affair but marries a mobster (Dan Duryea); to deflect suspicion, Lancaster lures Duryea into an armored-truck robbery, creating a vortex of greed and passion from which he cannot escape. Featuring the brief screen debut of Tony Curtis, Criss Cross is a stylish masterpiece of clashing fates and fatal attractions; Franz Planer's cinematography creates a shadow world in which every desire is tainted by the threat of violence, and Miklos Rozsa's score underlines a love story that could never end happily. Film noir doesn't get any bleaker--or better--than this. --Jeff Shannon Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Among the best of film noir This is classic film noir in all respects: dark moody lighting, flawed "hero", femme fatale, jealous husband, gray-area moral quandaries, pessimistic tone, unhappy ending, jaded, pseudo-sophisticated dialog. How about this gem of dialog where the Burt Lancaster character says: "A man eats an apple. He gets a piece of the core stuck between his teeth. He tries to work it out with some cellophane from a cigarette pack. What happens? The cellophane gets stuck in there too. Anna? What was ... Read More Rating: - Man Does Wrong to Win Love This is a great noir. Lancaster is a man governed by forces he cannot understand. He wants to get away from ex-wife DeCarlo but can't thinking about her and seeking her out, even after she marries creepy Dan Duyea and thus commits himself to crime just to win her back. "Man does wrong to win love" is the most basic film noir plot, and this is one of the early films to set it in stone. Aside from the great story, characters, and dialog, the film has great sets long exterior shots of parts of L.A. that ... Read More Rating: - Which movie is it? The film shown on this Amazon page is a drama about a twelve year old boy (David Arnott) raised by a single mom (Goldie Hawn), who happens to be a stripper, in Key West in 1969. It's a well-made film with good acting, but nothing special; it grabs your attention to the situation, but never really resolves it very insightfully. Most reviewers here have mistakenly written about the 1949 Burt Lancaster film Criss Cross which takes place in Los Angeles, not Key West. So which is this, the Goldie ... Read More Rating: - A doomed unequited love affair The Robert Siodmak directed "Criss Cross", has all the classic underpinnings for film noir, black and white cinematography, a plot bordering on criminality and a manipulative bad girl. The sultry Yvonne DeCarlo plays Anna, the self serving black hearted ex-wife of Burt Lancaster. Lancaster, in an early role, plays good natured schnook Steve Thompson who stills pines for his ex. He left L.A. in order to get her out of his system but is lured back hopelessly infatuated, much to the chagrin of ... Read More Rating: - A fine, bleak noir, close to great, where a person's destiny is written on his face like an epitaph "I didn't come back on account of her. It had nothing to do with her. I wasn't going to go looking for her. I didn't expect to run into her. I didn't particularly want to see her. I was sure of that if I was sure of anything. Then from the start it all went one way. It was in the cards or it was fate or a jinx or whatever you want to call it." Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) is a drifter, taking jobs where he finds them. He'd been married to Anna (Yvonne De Carlo) for seven months two years ago. ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - General Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Classics Mystery & Suspense - Genres - DVD - Video - General Mystery & Suspense - Genres - DVD - Video - Classics Crime - Mystery & Suspense - Genres - DVD - Video - Gangsters