Una vida marcada

Título original: Cry of the City

1948
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1h 35min

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Film Noir Crime Drama

El teniente de policia Candella, amigo desde hace mucho tiempo de la familia Rome, camina sobre la cuerda floja en el caso del asesino del policía Martin Rome.El teniente de policia Candella, amigo desde hace mucho tiempo de la familia Rome, camina sobre la cuerda floja en el caso del asesino del policía Martin Rome.El teniente de policia Candella, amigo desde hace mucho tiempo de la familia Rome, camina sobre la cuerda floja en el caso del asesino del policía Martin Rome.

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Mimi Aguglia

Mama Roma
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George Beranger

Barber
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Oliver Blake

Mr. Masselli
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Harry Carter

Elevator Operator
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Dolores Castle

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Ken Christy

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Curiosidades
The film was set to be released under the title of "The Law and Martin Rome", when a lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland named Morton E. Rome contacted the studio threatening to sue, saying the film would damage his career and expose him to ridicule. Exhibitors were also objecting to the title, so to please them and avoid the suit the title was changed just before the film's release.

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Phantom Bullet: During the struggle in his office, Niles fires his gun, missing Marty but killing the woman eavesdropping outside the frosted glass door. Yet the glass does not shatter, nor is there a hole in the surrounding woodwork or plaster...as if the sound alone killed her.

Citas
Martin Rome: I had enough of that when I'm a kid. Crummy tenements, no food, no clothes.
Lt. Vittorio Candella: Oh, save it for the jury, Marty. Who do you think you're kidding? l was brought up in the district too. I've heard that dialogue from you poolroom hotshots ever since l was ten years old. Get hip... only suckers work... don't be a square... stay with the smart money. Let the old man get the calluses digging the ditches. No food... no clothes... crummy tenements. You're breaking my heart, Marty.

Conexiones
Edited into American Cinema: Film Noir (1995)

Banda sonora
Baby Face
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Akst
Played during the scene in the bar

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6/10

Gritty crime drama benefits from NYC location shooting...

Robert Siodmak took to the city streets of New York for much of the location shooting in CRY OF THE CITY and it gives the whole story much more credence. Furthermore, the classic B&W photography of the city streets, a study in sunlight and shadows, heightens the tense mood and atmosphere of an engrossing crime story.

VICTOR MATURE and RICHARD CONTE are adversaries, one good, the other bad, buddies who grew up together on the city streets. Mature is a police lieutenant whose mission it is to find Conte once he's escaped from jail, with most of the story involved in Mature's search for the ruthless thug who has committed several serious crimes including murder.

The final scenes with Mature finally cornering Conte in a church are filled with high tension, thanks to director Siodmak's expert direction. He gets fully developed characterizations from his principal actors, as well as the supporting cast which includes FRED CLARK, DEBRA PAGET, TOMMY COOK, SHELLEY WINTERS and a standout turn from HOPE EMERSON as a woman intent on a jewel heist.

New Yorkers will be especially interested in seeing the Third Ave. El appearing prominently in one of the lower Manhattan scenes, as well as other Manhattan shots that show the city as it existed in '48. A classic example of '40s film noir.