Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on Criss Cross (1949)

Criss Cross - (Re-issue Trailer)

Burt Lancaster is an armored-car driver pulled into a bank heist in the film noir classic Criss Cross (1949).

Criss Cross (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Everything That Went Before

Director Robert Siodmak’s high octane opening, Burt Lancaster as Steve and Yvonne De Carlo as Anna, urgent and passionate outside a Los Angeles night club, her husband the seething “Slim” (Dan Duryea) giving the headwaiter (Vincent Renno) a hard time, in Criss Cross, 1949.

Criss Cross (1949) -- (Movie Clip) It All Went One Way

Heretofore 100% honest armored car driver Steve (Burt Lancaster) with colleague and family friend Pop (Griff Barnett) not knowing about the heist, recalls his ex-wife (Yvonne DeCarlo) and how he first got involved, Percy Helton the bartender, in Robert Siodmak’s Criss Cross, 1949.

Criss Cross (1949) -- (Movie Clip) He Tries To Work It Out

The bit-player cast as the dance partner of Anna (Yvonne De Carlo) is Tony Curtis, duly mesmerized as she digs into “Jungle Fantasy” by Puerto Rican musician Esy Morales and his band, Burt Lancaster as her ex-husband Steve narrating the back-story, in Robert Siodmak’s Criss Cross, 1949.