Director Robert Parrish; Producer Sam Wiesenthal, W.R. Frank; Screenplay William Bowers; Camera Joseph F. Biroc; Editor Bernard W. Burton; Music Emil Newman, Paul Dunlap; Art Director Richard Day ~ Starring Dick Powell / Rhonda Fleming / Richard Erdman / William Conrad / Regis Toomey / Jean Porter, and Lou Lubin as Hank. REVIEW: All the ingredients for a suspenseful melodrama are contained in CRY DANGER. The story, by Jerome Cady, opens with Rocky Mulloy (Dick Powell) returning after five years in prison, having been pardoned from a life sentence when new evidence turns up that clears him of a robbery rap. Evidence was manufactured by Delong, a crippled Marine vet (Richard Erdman) who figures Powell will be grateful enough to cut up some of the $100,000 loot he is supposed to have hidden.
Powell sees the pardon as an opportunity to bring the guilty parties to justice and free a friend still in prison. Free to maneuver, Rocky is now more then ever interested in finding out who set him and his friend Danny Morgan up in the crime, that he and Danny were sent up the river for. Rocky goes to see the person who was behind and planned the robbery, a small time hood named Louis Castro (William Conrad). Most of the scenes were filmed in the poorer section of Los Angeles, where Powell and Erdman have holed up in a crummy trailer camp to be near Rhonda Fleming, wife of the friend still in prison.
Jean Porter as Darlene Levine
The script constantly pushes its bad-girl theme, serving up plenty of floozies eager for the impassive Powell. CRY DANGER has a number of points in its favor. A low-budget, often brutal noir, it is enhanced considerably by the superb the cinematography of Joseph Biroc.
Powell’s character is focused and relentless. Rhonda Fleming plays Nancy Morgan, the quintessential amoral, stunningly beautiful femme fatale. Set in and around the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles - the seedy trailer park, the crummy cocktail bars, and the tunnels of Union Station are the perfect backdrop for a better-than-average tale of deceit, deception, and revenge.
Jean Porter as Darlene Levine
Powell’s character is focused and relentless. Rhonda Fleming plays Nancy Morgan, the quintessential amoral, stunningly beautiful femme fatale. Set in and around the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles - the seedy trailer park, the crummy cocktail bars, and the tunnels of Union Station are the perfect backdrop for a better-than-average tale of deceit, deception, and revenge.
