Noir City: Cry Danger (35mm)
February 15, 2025
Film Noir Foundation Restoration. When Rocky Mulloy (Dick Powell) is sprung from prison after serving five years on a robbery charge, he returns to Los Angeles looking to settle things with the crooks who set him up. A shady, wounded war vet (Richard Erdman) and his cellmate’s gorgeous wife (Rhonda Fleming) help him play cat-and-mouse with the local gangster (William Conrad) out to get him. A crackerjack crime film—short, smart, sassy, and full of surprises.
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
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When Rocky Mulloy (Dick Powell) is sprung from prison after serving five years on a robbery charge, he returns to Los Angeles looking to settle things with the crooks who set him up. A shady, wounded war vet (Richard Erdman) and his cellmate’s gorgeous wife (Rhonda Fleming) help him play cat-and-mouse with the local gangster (William Conrad) out to get him. From these bare bones, scripter Bowers makes Cry Danger both a stellar sampling of film noir and a sly send-up of the genre. Parrish, making his directorial debut, fleshes out the lean-and-mean script with a wonderful array of L.A. locations, always coming up with unusual glimpses into now-lost areas of the City of Angels. A crackerjack crime film—short, smart, sassy, and full of surprises. Note courtesy of Noir City. 35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive; preservation funding provided by the Film Noir Foundation.
- Director: Robert Parrish
- Principal Cast: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman
- Country: USA
- Year: 1951
- Running Time: 79 min.
- Producer: W.R. Frank, Sam Wiesenthal
- Screenplay: Jerome Candy, William Bowers
- Cinematographers: Joseph F. Biroc
- Editors: Bernard W. Burton
- Music: Emil Newman, Paul Dunlap
- Filmography: Casino Royale (1967), Saddle In the Wind (1958)
- Language: English
- Format: 35mm
- US Distributor: Paramount Pictures