Desert Fury

1947
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1h 36m

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6.5/10

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Burt Lancaster, John Hodiak, and Lizabeth Scott in Desert Fury (1947)

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

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The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

2.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Doorman
(uncredited)

Milton Kibbee

Mike - Bartender
(uncredited)

Mike Lally

Dealer
(uncredited)

Ralph Peters

Pete - Cafe Owner
(uncredited)

Ed Randolph

Dealer
(uncredited)

Tom Schamp

Dan - Deputy
(uncredited)

Ray Teal

Bus Driver
(uncredited)

Director
- Lewis Allen
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Trivia
The wood paneled burgundy convertible driven by Paula in the film is a 1946 Chrysler New Yorker Town and Country. These cruisers weighed over two tons, and were 218 inches long, 15 inches longer than the longest sedans produced today. The Town & Country cars were virtually coachbuilt inside and out, and their prices reflected this slow method of production. Despite prices that rivaled Cadillac-a base of $2,725 in 1946, some 8,368 New Yorker Town & Country convertibles found willing buyers during those three years.

Goofs
At 40 minutes in, when Tom Hanson (Burt Lancaster) pulls up to where Paula Haller (Lizabeth Scott) is and parks, the car is at an angle to the walk, but then all of a sudden it is parallel with the walk.

Quotes
Paula Haller: What did you tell her, Judge? That there's really no difference between us, that you're one of Fritzi's partners? That you make your money the same way Fritzi does except you get paid off in back alleys so that you can stay respectable?
Fritzi Haller: Oh don't talk like that! The Judge...
Paula Haller: Judge! Even the title's phony.
Fritzi Haller: He's trying to be nice, he said he'd talk to her.
Paula Haller: He's been talking to her ever since I was eight years old.
Fritzi Haller: Well you're not eight years old anymore.
Paula Haller: No. I used to cry when I was eight.
Fritzi Haller: But you don't cry anymore?
Paula Haller: No, I'm like you now Fritzi. I'm getting more like you every day.
Judge Berle Lindquist: Like mother, like daughter, two very charming...
Fritzi Haller: Oh shut up!

Connections
Featured in Wealth of the World: Transport (1950)

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Love triangle?

I've always wondered why Lizabeth Scott never became a big star;part of the reason can be found in the fact that she resembled Lauren Bacall.She plays opposite a bossy Mary Astor and a young Burt Lancaster with whom she would team up again the following year in " I walk alone" .But neither her nor Lancaster have interesting characters in "desert fury".

The real meat lies in the John Hodiak/Wendell Corey relationship.It seems sometimes that Johnny is in love with Eddie and is jealous of the women he woos."He's a bad man,he might have killed his wife " Johnny warns Paula ,but he cannot hide his misogyny and he tells her so:he hates her,and never Eddie will leave HIM for HER.