Quicksand (DVD)

Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1950 / Parental Guidance / Director: Irving Pichel / Actors: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne ... more

Quicksand (DVD) ... Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre ... / DVD released 2005-04-11 at Elstree Hill Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Black & White, PAL

Newest Review: ... the accountant turns up the check the tills this week. When the accountant arrives a couple of days early the next morning he ... more

... knows he has very little time to get hold of $20 and replace it in the till before the discrepancy is noticed. So begins a slow descent into crime as Dan tries to find ways to replace the money. Each plan he implements ends up just leaving him owing more and more money that he will have to repay very soon. Each plan just pulls him deeper and deeper into depths he never thought he would enter...... just like Quicksand! Quicksand is a top draw Noir that has a great cast, a wonderfully simple but well written s...more

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Quicksand [1950] [DVD]
Release Date: 2005 - 04 - 11, Rating Parental Guidance,

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Quicksand (DVD): Sinking into the mire (870 words)
by - written on 28/05/09 (Very useful, 106 readings)
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Quicksand is a movie from 1950 that sits quite firmly in the Film Noir genre. It has a terrific femme fatale, Kay played by Jeanne Cagney (James' sister) and has that fatalism that is associated with the genre running all the way through it. It has a surprisingly simple premise that works primarily because it would be so easy for anyone to end up in the situation that Dan (Mickey Rooney) finds himself in, at least in the early parts of the movie when he first starts slipping into the mire. Dan is a mechanic, he is young, bright and loves life. Feeling tied down by the girlfriend he has just broken up with he takes a chance and flirts with the stunning ... Read the complete review

This movie will pull you in (1038 words)
by - written on 17/04/09 (Very useful, 155 readings)
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Starring: Mickey Rooney as Daniel 'Dan' Brady Jeanne Cagney as Vera Novak Peter Lorre as Nick Dramoshag This 1950 film is a real oddity: a Film Noir in which the hero is played by, of all people, Mickey Rooney, and in which the femme fatale is played by James Cagney's sister, who looks just like James Cagney in drag and therefore maybe not quite so palatable as a feminine temptress as we would like! This is the first film I know of where Mickey Rooney plays completely against type, moving from teenage star of many family comedies such as the Andy Hardy series, where he played endearingly silly young characters, to a cocky ... Read the complete review

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