{"id":36388,"date":"2016-11-07T16:17:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=36388"},"modified":"2016-11-07T23:01:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T07:01:32","slug":"challenge-week-40-crime-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/challenge-week-40-crime-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Week 40: Crime Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty much always going to like film noir, so my fellow film blogger Kristina<\/a> was wise in choosing a couple of lesser-known noirs for me to watch. Crime Wave<\/em> is a fairly straight-forward crime drama, with a gang of crooks holding up a gas station – when one of them is wounded, he makes his way to a former associate of theirs, Steve (Gene Nelson), who’s trying to go straight. Before long, Steve’s pulled back in (totally against his will), and becomes something of a battleground between his parole officer, who believes in him, and the detective in charge of the case (Sterling Hayden), who doesn’t.<\/p>\n

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I don’t really have a whole lot to say about this. I enjoyed it, as I always enjoy noir-tinged crime dramas, and it had some interesting elements to it. I’ve only seen Gene Nelson in musicals before, so it was fun to see him stretch a bit from that. Sterling Hayden is always solid in noir, and he walked a fine line here that kept you guessing a bit what he was ultimately going to do with Steve, since he doesn’t initially believe a con can reform, despite Steve’s obvious sincerity.<\/p>\n

Other fun moments help it stand out a little, like the jovial gas station attendant who loves Doris Day and the unusual intimacy of Steve’s relationship with his wife. I always worry about wives in noir (The Big Heat<\/em> messed me up a little, in a good way), and Steve’s was certainly in some danger for a while, but she held her own and even though the resolution felt a little tacked on, I didn’t care, I was happy with it. A solid, fun little thriller, glad I saw it for sure, but not one that’ll probably stick with me too much in the long run.<\/p>\n

Stats and stuff…<\/h3>\n

1954, USA<\/em>
\ndirected by Andr\u00c3\u00a9 De Toth, written by Crane Wilbur<\/em>
\nstarring Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m ranking all my Challenge films on Flickchart (as I do all the films I see), a movie-ranking website that asks you to choose your favorite between two movies until it builds a ranked list of your favorites. Just for fun, I will average out the rankings and keep a running tally of whose recommendations rank the highest. When you add a film to Flickchart, it pits it against films already on your chart to see where it should fall. Here’s how Crime Wave<\/em> entered my chart:<\/p>\n

Crime Wave<\/b> > A Day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pleasure
\nCrime Wave<\/b> > Sideways
\nCrime Wave < The Mummy<\/b> (1999)
\nCrime Wave < My Darling Clementine<\/b>
\nCrime Wave < The Uninvited<\/b>
\nCrime Wave < It Should Happen to You<\/b>
\nCrime Wave < Orpheus<\/b>
\nCrime Wave < The Breaking Point<\/b>
\nCrime Wave < Broadway Melody of 1936<\/b>
\nCrime Wave < Ran<\/b>
\nCrime Wave < Mr. Sardonicus<\/b>
\nCrime Wave < X-Men<\/b><\/p>\n

Final #928 out of 3710 films on my chart (75%)<\/p>\n

It is now my #1 Andre de Toth film, my #5 Sterling Hayden film, my #2 Gene Nelson film, my #53 Crime Drama, my #54 Film Noir, my #23 Gangster Film, and my #13 film of 1954.<\/p>\n

Crime Wave<\/em> was recommended by Kristina Dijon<\/a>, a film blogger friend.<\/p>\n

A few more screenshots…<\/h3>\n

\"tf-attendant\"<\/p>\n

\"tf-gas-station-hood\"<\/p>\n

\"tf-dead-cop\"<\/p>\n

\"tf-contrast\"<\/p>\n

\"tf-hayden\"<\/p>\n

\"tf-trio\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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