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Yvonne De Carlo and Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross
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Criss Cross

film by Siodmak [1949]
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    …such as director Robert Siodmak’s Criss Cross (1949)—were made as B-films.

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  • Robert Siodmak

    Criss Cross (1949) was even better; Lancaster played a bitter armoured-car driver whose attempts to reunite with his ex-wife (Yvonne De Carlo), who is now married to a gangster (Dan Duryea), result in his becoming involved in a bank robbery. The complicated tale (written by…

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    Criss Cross (1949) was even better; Lancaster played a bitter armoured-car driver whose attempts to reunite with his ex-wife (Yvonne De Carlo), who is now married to a gangster (Dan Duryea), result in his becoming involved in a bank robbery. The complicated tale (written by…

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