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There are 2 films in this list released in the 1950s.
With a screenplay by W. R. Burnett, it’s a post-war drive into highly internalized characters whose lives so conflict with rage and yearning, like Calhern’s for young Marilyn Monroe. The most powerful performance is by the stunningly authentic Sterling Hayden. It’s Huston at his most brilliant.
The Ernest Lehman, Clifford Odets caustic screenplay is unequaled except by performances by Lancaster and Curtis and the chiaroscuro lighting and night exterior shooting of James Wong Howe when film stock had 14 ASA.
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