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Mark Stevens,
Mark Stevens,
Richard Widmark,
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William Keighley,
William Keighley
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: Not Rated
: 20th Century Fox
: Vintage Noir, Cops, Gangsters
: 91 min.
: English, Spanish
: English, Spanish
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FBI operative Mark Stevens is dispatched by his boss Lloyd Nolan to infiltrate a criminal gang. Stevens ingratiates himself with Richard Widmark, the gang's leader, then helps concoct a robbery that will deliver the criminals into the hands of the authorities. But there's an informant in the police department, who gets word back to Widmark. Aware that there's a stoolie in his gang, Widmark automatically assumes that his wife Barbara Lawrence is the guilty party, and beats her senseless. Eventually determining that Stevens is the "mole," Widmark methodically plans to kill Stevens during a holdup; by this time, however, the FBI is a step or so ahead of him. Remade in 1955 by Samuel Fuller as House of Bamboo. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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by talltale
June 15, 2005 - 3:51 PM PDT
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4 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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Most interesting perhaps for its look at the FBI during a time when this organization actually worked (or so we hoped), THE STREET WITH NO NAME offers good guy Mark Stevens against bag guy Richard Widmark, awash in a sea of men. This was the late 40s, remember, so the few women we encounter are either floozies or characterless drones at their switchboard/waitress jobs.
There's a fine boxing scene early on, and a little suspense toward the end; in between is a faux documentary/faux noir paean to our country's wonderful crime fighters. Of note mostly as an artifact of its time, this is competent, workmanlike moviemaking with a brief running time (91 minutes) that's a big help. |
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