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- A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer. Noir crime and silent-era.
- On Dangerous Ground is directed by Nicholas Ray and stars Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan & Ward Bond. It's loosely adapted by Ray and A. Bezzerides from Gerald Butler's novel Mad With Much Heart. Cinematography is by George E.
On Dangerous Ground. On Dangerous Ground (1. Directed by Nicolas Ray. On Dangerous Ground was a film that I had never heard of, until I encountered it in the 1. Film Noirs BFI Screen Guide, and as one of the 5. Essential Film Noirs in the Rough Guide to Film Noir.
On Dangerous Ground Our film noir tonight is RKO’s On Dangerous Ground, from 1951, directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino. Download On Dangerous Ground (1952-Ida Lupino) torrent for free. Fast and Clean downloads from BitTorrentScene a free public file sharing platform.
Set in the English countryside, it followed a hard bitten London detective on an investigation. The RKO story department dutifully considered it, concluding that it was “powerful” but “unpleasant.” (MGilligan 1. Raymond Chandler wasn’t interested (lack of humor made it hard for him to consider adapting it), but A.
Bezzerides, who had written acclaimed novels and screenplays full of seedy locales and hard boiled types, signed on. Ray and producer John Houseman convinced top RKO star Robert Ryan to play embittered cop Jim Wilson, and then Ray and Bezzerides set out to Americanize the novel.
Robert Ryan is a key film noir leading man, with his powerful body and intimidating scowl. In 1. 93. 6 he joined a Chicago amateur theater group, and his path was set.
She was born to be in show business, her family had been in the theater since the Renaissance, and her father, Stanley Lupino was considered to be one of the best actor comedians in Great Britain. Although he had a small part in Knock on Any Door, he was not a very experienced actor and was nervous in front of the camera. Lupino was rumored to have directed the ending scenes herself. The photography was by George E.
Diskant, whom Ray had worked with before and admired. The nighttime city scenes were mostly filmed in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, daringly, in almost total darkness. The music was by Bernard Herrmann, whose scores are often associated with Alfred Hitchcock. His “violent scherzo” for the chase was according to Herrmann’s biographer, one of “the most exhilarating pieces of film music ever written” (Mc. Gilligan 1. 96) and some say it was his favorite score. Robert Ryan often played anti- social characters with a tender core.
If Lupino was considered a 2nd string Bette Davis, Ryan often played parts which suggested a 2nd string Humphrey Bogart. In fact, Lupino’s role here is reminiscent of her part opposite Bogart in High Sierra. Ryan said, “Nick had, I think, great respect from me.
Off screen Ryan and Ray “were kindred spirits. The effort was in vain, the film lost $4. The film was given its power by a dicohotmy between the city and country halves of the film.