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On Dangerous Ground (1951)

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Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum, in Nicholas Ray's moving film noir. After severely beating several suspects, Jim is assigned to a case far from the city to find the killer of a young girl. Joining the manhunt, in snow-covered terrain, Wilson finds himself paired with the victim's father, Walter Brent (Ward Bond), who plans to shoot the killer himself. When the two men come upon a cabin occupied by Mary Malden (Ida

R, 1 hr. 22 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

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A.I. Bezzerides, Nicholas Ray

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One of the loveliest of Nick Ray's movies.

October 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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Haunting mix of police story, romance and tale of regeneration.

January 30, 2012 Full Review Source: Classic Film and Television | Comment
Classic Film and Television

What succeeds in On Dangerous Ground is the raw emotionalism that bleeds out from the screen, unmatched in any of Ray's other films.

July 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
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Nicholas Ray's classic noir starring Ryan and Lupino.

March 2, 2008 Comment
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A realistic and often gripping crime yarn.

October 23, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Above par noir thriller that takes some stereotypical characters and potentially sentimental situations to fashion them into a film that thinks as well as entertains.

October 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

One of noir's most soulful and poetic expressions of hope and redemption.

August 16, 2006 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

[One of] a string of masterworks from Ray.

July 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Perched between late-'40s noir and mid-'50s crime drama, this is one of the great, forgotten works of the genre.

May 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Nicholas Ray's existential melodrama is considered to be a flawed noir because of its upbeat ending, but it's one of the director's most lyrical tales and is extremely well acted by Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan.

June 19, 2005 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Overcomes its artificial contrivances to become a touching psychological drama about despair and loneliness.

January 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Atmospheric noir mood piece with excellent work by greats Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino with an evocative score by Bernard Hermann, reportedly his favorite of all his work.

September 25, 2010
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jay nixon

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Really interesting Noir from Nicholas Ray.It's sort of the Dusk till Dawn of it's day. It's a picture of two distinct halves. The first a police film. The second a chase.It's easy to see why this film, with it's early use of hand held camera was an inspiration for the French new wave. As Godard said "Nicholas Ray is

May 5, 2007
kenstachnik

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