CRISS CROSS (1947)

Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster), carrying a torch for his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne DeCarlo), returns to LA and finds her in the clutches of small-time gangster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea, Eternal Cut-Rate Richard Widmark). Thompson concocts a scheme to get a job on his father's armored car and have it robbed by Dundee and his gang so that he and Anna can abscond with the money. Nothing goes as planned, Anna double crosses him and they meet a bad end. This isn't a great movie, and I'd have liked to see more of Duryea, a particularly effective and nasty bad guy (the Warren Oates/Bruce Dern of the Forties). But, it's worth watching for Lancaster and DeCarlo, plus Duryea's irresistable gang of miscreants--how can you miss with a cast that includes Tom Pedi, Alan Napier, Richard Long, Percy Helton and Marc Krah?

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.