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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013023267893
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Geneon [Pioneer]
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Geneon [Pioneer]
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 22, 2005
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 20670
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 1949
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Ingram Entertainment Release Date: 11/22/2005
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great little Noir movie !!
This great Film Noir movie is a hidden gem and I am glad I got it !
John Payne is the classic noir guy and wish he had made more !!
Rating:  - Tje John Payne "Way"!
Nice noir effort with former musical comedy star, John Payne. He always comes thru nicely in his various noir classics. Tight and nicely mounted with much atmosphere and typical noir lighting and shadows. Sunny Tuffs is a nice surprise as a meanie.
Rating:  - Noir boor
Personally, as a child, the room I was staying with my mother was used in the film. My babysitter recalls that John Payne was a real snob. I am glad it is available though since it stirred childhood memories of crawling over cables and the remembering the brightness of the lights.
Rating: - An okay noir with great John Alton style and that odd, unnerving character actor, the fine Percy Helton
If you believe that noir is a style more than a genre and that you'll recognize the style as soon as you see it, you'll have The Crooked Way pegged ten minutes in. That's when Eddie Rice (John Payne), a war vet who won the Silver Star and has a hunk of shrapnel in his brain, hits the streets of Los Angeles to find out who he is. Eddie has spent five years in an Army hospital in San Francisco while doctors worked to help him recover his memory. He has complete amnesia. But as his doctors point out, ... Read More
Rating: - Grade B noir
"The Crooked Way" is a 1949 film noir using the all too familiar theme of an amnesiac attempting to put the puzzling pieces of his life back together. War hero Eddie Rice has been convalescing for 5 years in a San Francisco military hospital for wounds that have left a piece of shrapnel lodged deep within his brain. Rice played by John Payne, only knows that he'd enlisted in Los Angeles. He is convinced by his doctor to return there to hopefully discover his true identity.
Upon his ... Read More
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