Cry of the City (1948)

Two men who should be unified by their shared past, instead destroy themselves while decimating the hope of future generations in “Cry of the City.”  From genre icon Robert Siodmak, “Cry of the City” casts Victor Mature as a relentless New York detective tasked with…

theriverjordan

I feel like this could be a darkened title to my life cause I have been living by a firehall for a while and dang if I do not hear it on a daily bases. On to the review. Classic gritty noir film with Richard Conte(Marty Rome) playing a cop killer who is stuck…

pirateneckbeard

The Big Noirvember 30/30 prompt 14: Directed by Robert Siodmak The standouts in this noir IMO were its iconic theme song’s perfection, the stellar cast, & Victor Mature’s statuesque broad shoulders! My goodness. The story was standard cops & robbers, but most compelling…

Penny_S

While petty criminal Marty Rome lies on the hospital bed after a firefight with the cop he killed, a sleazy lawyer tries to pin on him another crime, a robbery/murder that has shocked New York. Rome recovers and escapes in an attempt to clear his name and find a way to…

panos75

"They'll make a Robin Hood out of a cheap hoodlum like that. The longer he's loose the bigger hero he is." Lt. Candella (Victor Mature) is on the hunt. His childhood friend Martin Rome (Richard Conte) took a different path. Where Candella became an officer of the law,…

Jesse Snoddon

Could see people maybe finding the community morality tale heartstring-tugging of this a bit obvious but Siodmak is so good at getting you (like Richard Conte's Marty) engrossed in the desperate, ground-level suspense machinations of the escalating, on-the-run noir thrills…

Josh Lewis

Some spoilers ahead. Though I am not quite as enamored of Cry of the City on the whole as a lot of other folks, it's always a pleasure to watch Richard Conte play a villain. Here, he imbues small-time crook Martin Rome with an incongruously childlike sense of joy in his…

sakana1

Cry of the City is a somewhat standard but competently made Film Noir from genre expert Robert Siodmak. Not his best work but good enough to be entertaining for 95 minutes. The stakes aren’t particularly high but the cast including Victor Mature, Richard Conte and a very…

Gregor Kreyca

"He's out there somewhere. In an alley, on a roof, looking for a way out. He's not asleep." Noirvember #4 For the discerning noir enthusiast, there's a particular enjoyment that arises from both watching and listening to Richard Conte. He always seemed to have a…

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