This is a real classic. I love this movie! The way it was filmed. Great acting and drama build up. It was fun! One of burts best roles,i think. If you like gangster type movies from this era,this one is a great example. A real pleasure to watch!
@maelstone No, it was a short story that Hemingway made as sketchy as he could, possibly writing it then taking out everything he possibly could. This and the 1960s version with Lee Marvin (and Ronald Reagan as the villain who slaps Angie Dickenson) are both extrapolations. This one was a smash hit that made big stars out of both Lancaster and Ava Gardner (Gardner had also made a flop the yr b4 with George Raft).
@windstorm1000 The original radio Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke." He was a wondrous noir actor and had a unique voice. The radio Gunsmoke episodes are in the public domain and readily available online. They're more adult than the TV series (Kitty's a whore) and you can compare the same episodes to the half-hour TV versions.
I love the classic noir lighting in this film. Ava was dazzling as "Kitty." However, her character lacked adequate development, in my opinion. This is not my favorite classic, but it was entertaining nonetheless.
Very little known fact. This was based on a true story. The Swede character came into Britton South Dakota to hide out. The killers really did come to the town in search of him. This incident was a oft-repeated story in that locale, according to a cousin of mine.
This was jumpy-style like Citizen Kane, but I found it a little harder to follow. CK was hard when I first saw it in high school, but once I learned more about it and about William Randolph Hurst, it made a lot more sense to me. I never read the Hemmingway book for this, but he was notorious for not liking the way they turned his books to movies so I have to think that the story was written a little differently by PAPA..
Wow, thanks for posting this! I'd never seen it before...how interesting the way Hemingway's story was used as a jumping off point for what is a sort of "Citizen Kane"-style narrative.
the character named nick adams---the actor nick adams got his name from the hemingway story; nick adams the actor from pa, played in DIE MONSTER DIE and some Godzilla movie.
Supposedly, the hemingway story ended with the man being killed; the rest of the movie is totally origonal.
@funnycookbook the actor who was the star of THE SOPRANOS will probably be made fun of decades from now; almost all....the killers....in THE SOPRANOS are fat.
the mustacheoed killer in this movie had a long tv career, with the tv show CANNON being his 1970s hit.
this "implausible" plot was remade, in the '60s, with the killers being the ones who wonder why the victim didn't care about being killed.
this movie makes a lot more sense than 99.9 percent of movies made now days.
Thanks so much for posting this film noir ! Robert Siodmak was one of the best back then (along with Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, Anthony Mann, Orson Welles, Henry Hathaway, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger)...
This is a real classic. I love this movie! The way it was filmed. Great acting and drama build up. It was fun! One of burts best roles,i think. If you like gangster type movies from this era,this one is a great example. A real pleasure to watch!
scooglefish 8 hours ago
OMG the one at 0:34:27 is just as good! I was soooo born too late.
dragmio 2 days ago
0:25:30 Wow what a broad! I love 1940's women. :)
dragmio 2 days ago
the plot is taken from Hemingway`s novel ?
maelstone 2 weeks ago
@maelstone short story
JoeyPencils 1 week ago
@maelstone No, it was a short story that Hemingway made as sketchy as he could, possibly writing it then taking out everything he possibly could. This and the 1960s version with Lee Marvin (and Ronald Reagan as the villain who slaps Angie Dickenson) are both extrapolations. This one was a smash hit that made big stars out of both Lancaster and Ava Gardner (Gardner had also made a flop the yr b4 with George Raft).
Onlymusical 2 days ago
AVA ,LA MUJER MÁS IMPRESIONANTE DEL MUNDO ¡¡¡¡
manoblanda 3 weeks ago
You're looking at "Cannon" there in the beginning scene.
windstorm1000 3 weeks ago
@windstorm1000 The original radio Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke." He was a wondrous noir actor and had a unique voice. The radio Gunsmoke episodes are in the public domain and readily available online. They're more adult than the TV series (Kitty's a whore) and you can compare the same episodes to the half-hour TV versions.
Onlymusical 2 days ago
"Brute Force" is another great noir movie of Lancaster's which I have only ever found fragments of on You Tube.
Hendrikdevuile 4 weeks ago
at 38:07 is that really her singing or is she lip syncing?
xtrordinarygrl15 4 weeks ago
@xtrordinarygrl15 It is her voice and one of the few times they let her not be lip-synced.
somewhere6 1 day ago
Don't step on the Swede's blue shoes.
7beers 1 month ago
MASTERPIECE.
Toughguysdontdance12 1 month ago
any way i can download this?
MCrilly08 1 month ago
@MCrilly08 RealPlayer Downloader
davidenespana 1 month ago
I love the classic noir lighting in this film. Ava was dazzling as "Kitty." However, her character lacked adequate development, in my opinion. This is not my favorite classic, but it was entertaining nonetheless.
SkylinerG 1 month ago
never watched this movie b4 but its just wonderful
Vitumbiko100 2 months ago
sick film.. god kitty was fit!
odide 2 months ago
this is strange. Only the first five minutes were from Hem's short story....up to the point Nick spoke to thew Swede.
bryanttillman 2 months ago
The volume on this video is perfect.
floridafyme 3 months ago
Brilliant.
Passbookable 3 months ago
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This is a great movie.
floridafyme 3 months ago
Very little known fact. This was based on a true story. The Swede character came into Britton South Dakota to hide out. The killers really did come to the town in search of him. This incident was a oft-repeated story in that locale, according to a cousin of mine.
Glinkaism1 3 months ago
This was jumpy-style like Citizen Kane, but I found it a little harder to follow. CK was hard when I first saw it in high school, but once I learned more about it and about William Randolph Hurst, it made a lot more sense to me. I never read the Hemmingway book for this, but he was notorious for not liking the way they turned his books to movies so I have to think that the story was written a little differently by PAPA..
ntnrocket1 4 months ago
Pretty bad
notAbba 4 months ago
Wow, thanks for posting this! I'd never seen it before...how interesting the way Hemingway's story was used as a jumping off point for what is a sort of "Citizen Kane"-style narrative.
UltraDeb 4 months ago
the character named nick adams---the actor nick adams got his name from the hemingway story; nick adams the actor from pa, played in DIE MONSTER DIE and some Godzilla movie.
Supposedly, the hemingway story ended with the man being killed; the rest of the movie is totally origonal.
monk22yrs 5 months ago
lol how implausible is this plot? professionaly killers? more like tweedledee
funnycookbook 5 months ago
@funnycookbook the actor who was the star of THE SOPRANOS will probably be made fun of decades from now; almost all....the killers....in THE SOPRANOS are fat.
the mustacheoed killer in this movie had a long tv career, with the tv show CANNON being his 1970s hit.
this "implausible" plot was remade, in the '60s, with the killers being the ones who wonder why the victim didn't care about being killed.
this movie makes a lot more sense than 99.9 percent of movies made now days.
monk22yrs 5 months ago
u mad?
funnycookbook 5 months ago
@funnycookbook just stating some trivia.
even an episode of THE SOPRANOS had tony trying to re-arrange his body weight on a scale; i think he was over 250 pounds, in his underwear.
monk22yrs 5 months ago
@funnycookbook This IS based on a true story. See my other post. Briefly, it happened in a rural community in NE South Dakota.
Glinkaism1 3 months ago
classic film
taperek1 6 months ago
Thanks so much for posting this film noir ! Robert Siodmak was one of the best back then (along with Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, Anthony Mann, Orson Welles, Henry Hathaway, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger)...
freddiefreejazzify 6 months ago