Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on Desperate (1947)

Desperate (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Some Junk For The County Fair

The kindly sheriff who was about to take fugitives Steve and Ann (Steve Brodie, Audrey Long) into custody conveniently crashed into a tree, so they move on to their next conveyance, and a famous shot from director Anthony Mann with George E. Diskant’s camera, headed for her family farm, in Desperate, 1947.

Desperate (1947) -- (Movie Clip) That New Bride Of Yours

After the botched robbery, thug Shorty (Freddie Steele) turns unwilling driver Steve (Steve Brodie) over to boss Walt (Raymond Burr), angry because his brother got nabbed, in Anthony Mann's Desperate, 1947.

Desperate (1947) -- (Movie Clip) It's An Easy Job

Ann (Audrey Long) with neighbor (Carol Forman) considers telling trucker husband Steve (Steve Brodie) she's pregnant, he arrives, calls Reynolds (William Challeee), secretly representing thug Walt (Raymond Burr), early in Anthony Mann's Desperate, 1947.

Desperate (1947) -- (Movie Clip) We Were Gonna Celebrate

Two consecutive high points for Audrey Long as innocent Ann, expecting to celebrate her four-month anniversary with war-hero truck-driver husband Steve (Steve Brodie), who was an unwilling participant in a robbery gone wrong, now on the run, early in director Anthony Mann’s Desperate, 1947.