It is strong meat for the heavy drama addicts, tellingly produced and played to develop tight excitement.
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11/01/07
Act of Violence (1948)
88 %
Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 7 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Genre: Dramas, Thriller, Film Noir
Starring: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Phyllis Thaxter, Mary Astor
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Top Critic
One of MGM's best film noirs and one of Zinnemann's early films to deal with what would become a recurrent issue in his owrk: Men tormented by moral conscience, here in the context of a WWII revenge medlodrama
10/26/06
Zinnemann shows a knack for suspense and moral ambiguity that he unfortunately abandoned in his later Oscar-mongering prestige pictures.
07/04/06
Technically Act of Violence touches all the bases in its circuit chase. But it is as though it were doing it on the strength of a long, foul ball.
03/25/06
Top Critic
Zinnemann's film noir is a rather cynical dig at post-war triumphalism, which questions ideas of heroism.
05/24/03
A complex, fascinating noir that exposes the grim truths behind the shiny, fragile façade of post-war America.
03/31/03
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