On Dangerous Ground

Name: On Dangerous Ground
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Released: December 12, 1951
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Anthony Ross, Charles Kemper, Ed Begley, Frank Ferguson, Gus Schilling

1951

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RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: December 12, 1951 | Approved

Starring: Anthony Ross, Charles Kemper, Ed Begley, Frank Ferguson, Gus Schilling, Ian Wolfe, Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Sumner Williams, Ward Bond

Summary: Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

Director: Ida Lupino and Nicholas Ray

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 82 min

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Michael Wilmington

Great direction, script (A.I. Bezzerides), score (Bernard Herrmann). [25 Aug 2006, p.C7]

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Aided enormously by George Diskant's high contrast camerawork and by Bernard Herrmann's stunning score, which emphasises the hunt motif in Ryan's quest, it's a film of frequent brilliance. Read full review

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The urban harshness of the city is contrasted with the austere snowy countryside for some of the most disconcertingly moving effects in all film noir. Despite the violence and the steady intensity, a remarkably pure film. Read full review

Philip French

A noir classic by the distinguished team of producer John Houseman and director Nicholas Ray. [06 Jan 2013, p.43]

Dave Kehr

One of the loveliest of Nick Ray's movies: this 1952 feature begins as a harsh film noir and gradually shifts to an ethereal romanticism reminiscent of Frank Borzage. Read full review

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On Dangerous Ground is tautly directed by that master of stark dramas, Nicholas Ray. Ryan and Lupino give sterling performances but the story line is broken up into two distinct segments, which lessens the film's impact and cohesiveness. Read full review

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Ray manages to inject an occasional bit of excitement into the yarn, and had the psychotic touches been eliminated in the script, film could have qualified as okay, even if grim, melodrama. Read full review

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