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Criss Cross

When you Double-Cross a Double-Crosser... It's a Criss Cross!

7.1(190)19491h 28m3

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

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Released
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Box office
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Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • armored car
  • film noir
  • mobster
  • los angeles, california
  • attempted robbery

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRLos Angeles, California19 Jan 1949
    • Theatrical4 Feb 1949
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical4 Apr 1949
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatricale 141 Jan 1952
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical156 Feb 1950
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1622 Oct 1953
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatricale 146 Jul 1951

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Criss Cross was released on 4 February 1949.

Audience reviews

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    Steve

    8/27/2017

    10/10

    from filmnoiroftheweek.com I always find the music in film noir interesting. Unlike self-conscious noirs like Farewell, My Lovely and Body Heat, most noir soundtracks are orchestral – not jazz. The slow wailing saxophone over a Robert Mitchum voice-over can be found in noir parodies like the Guy Noir segments of A Prairie Home Companion. Strangely enough, that kind of music track is never actually heard in classic…

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    John Chard

    6/19/2019

    9/10

    I should have been a better friend. I shoulda stopped you. Criss Cross is directed by Robert Siodmak and adapted by Daniel Fuchs from Don Tracy's novel. It stars Burt Lancaster, Yvonne de Carlo, Dan Duryea and Stephen McNally. Music is scored by Miklós Rózsa and cinematography is by Franz Planer. Steve Thompson (Lancaster) and old flame Anna (de Carlo) begin to rekindle their love, much to the dismay of those c…

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    CinemaSerf

    2/19/2026

    7/10

    “Steve” (Burt Lancaster) is quite a decent cove, but he has an Achilles heel. His ex-wife “Anna” (Yvonne De Carlo) is a manipulative creature who knows that she has him around her little finger. His hopes of some sort of reconciliation are dashed when he discovers that she has married local kingpin “Slim” (Dan Duryea). Increasingly desperate, he concocts a cunning plan to raise enough cash to lure her away from him, …

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