Crime Wave (1954) | November 17 | Upland Wood Shop | 7PM

Tickets for the 7PM screening of CRIME  WAVE (1954)

1954 • USA • 73 minutes • dir. Andre de Toth

Sunday, November 17th
at Upland Wood Shop (354 W 11th St)
$8 dollars | All Ages

Showtime: 7pm

TRAILER

Synopsis: “Once you’ve done a bit, nobody leaves you alone. Somebody’s always on your back.”

The phone never stops ringing in Crime Wave, a knotty and concise film noir set in Los Angeles. This masterfully executed B-movie was one of four films released in 1954 directed by the indefatigable, mysterious, and eventually one-eyed Hungarian immigrant Andre de Toth. The gorgeously shot and lit action moves quickly: a trio of escaped prisoners catch further police attention after a hold-up at a gas station, dragging a reformed ex-con (Gene Nelson) back into the muck. An unsentimental LAPD detective (an icy Sterling Hayden) marks him as a person of interest, never letting go of his conviction that the ex-con must be involved. And then things get worse. A young Charles Bronson appears, comfortably radiating swagger and presence. It is a film propelled by interruption: phone calls, knocks on the door, radio dispatches, the inescapable past.