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Rips into you like a double-crossing Dame!
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
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99 River Street
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血战九九街, 怒火情丝, 河街九十九号, Non cercate l'assassino, Taxi 539 antwortet nicht, A Morte Ronda o Cais, Calle River, 99, Taxi 539 svarer ikke, L'Affaire de la 99e Rue
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11 Sep 1953
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Masculine rage comes with a price beyond just bloodied fists and broken noses in “99 River Street.” It blackens not only eyes, but men’s very souls.
An indie United Artists noir by “Kansas City Confidential” director Phil Karlson, “River Street” has an emotional daring and intelligence beyond even better boilerplate entries of its genre’s era.
The movie depicts a down and out prize fighter, a struggling actress, a slimy gangster, and a cheating wife; all groping to eke out the remnants of their dreams. While these initially appear as rote stock characters, Karlson uses “River Street’s” narrative to play them as adversaries against the expectations of their own cliches.
The best laid ambitions of each of the characters - to…
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This has a lot of the cliche film noir elements and I for one applaud it for it. I won't go into all the reasons why but you could definitely make it a bingo game. John Payne(Ernie Driscoll)was solid here as a former boxer retired trying to slowly build his slice of the American dream but wouldn't you know old lady fate she just sometimes hands you a big chunk of a national nightmare. It's got that classic diagolue here and great black and white shadowed shots especially by the docks. The ending would be a little cheese if it weren't for the continual vibe that molds this material. This movie even in it's short length has a lot of story to it and moves along well keeping you invested. Worthy of it's accolades.
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“There are worse things than murder. You can kill someone an inch at a time.” - Ernie Driscoll
99 River Street is an absolute Film Noir highlight for me from the very underrated genre director Phil Karlson. Movie like this just click with me. The main protagonist, very well played by John Payne, has a very bad night in New York. He’s a good guy with a temper and also a most unlucky chump. Every minute the rope around his neck tightens and you are starting to wonder how he’s ever gonna get out of this mess.There is a lot of tension and excitement here. The movie is superbly directed, written and shot and the cast is a treat.…
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99 River Street recalls no less a noir touchstone than Detour in its grimy, helpless inevitability. In both films, men react to events and are trapped by those reactions, unintentionally choosing a path that only digs them deeper and deeper into a hole that they'll be lucky if they ever get out of.
In this film, the man in question is ex-boxer Ernie Driscoll (John Payne), a former champion who was banned from the ring because a punch so badly reduced the functioning of his right eye. His new gig as a humble cabbie antagonizes his already dissatisfied wife (Pauline, played by Peggie Castle) who wants more and wants it now.
Pauline finds her 'more' in the arms of ambitious,…
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John Payne's beaten down ex-boxer cab driver has a bitter wife with expensive tastes and some small time dreams about owning a gas station. The wife starts running with a jewel thief and he finds himself tangled up in several murders and a theatre full of assault charges.
As in Kansas City Confidential Payne and Karlson provide something half way between Noir fatalism and a more straightforward crime drama. Payne really delivers as a decent hard man out of his depth. Keyes is great as the down on her luck actress with a heart of gold who life has given quite a few lessons in how to play bad. It doesn't have a noir ending. Like Kansas City Confidential you…
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you know the noir is gonna hit when it opens with a boxer saying “I could’ve been the champ.”
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Director Phil Karlson had a few excellent crime/noir films in the early 50s ("Kansas City Confidential", "Scandal Sheet") and this is another. I was also eager due to the teaming of John Payne in his later tough-guy phase and the usually-reliable Evelyn Keyes. With a complicated but fast-moving plot, a New York City setting and some good character actors playing the thugs and crooks, it definitely worked for me.
Payne plays an ex-boxer who had to retire early due to an eye injury. Now working as a cabbie, he's got a short fuse and lashes out with rage when crossed. His wife who saw him as a meal ticket to the good life is dissatisfied and cheats on him. But…
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Boy and you taught the guy from After Hours had a bad night…
Director Phil Karlson is clearly someone I need to keep my eyes into for his best work (I’m accepting recommendations please)! If I had fell in love for Kansas City Confidential mean grit and blunt straightforwardness, Karlson amps the ante in 99 River Street, a bloody-fists Noir that walks the same fine line of tough crooks, double crossing schemes and avenge seeking leading men embarking on a odyssey pushed by unfairly framed stakes and own existential conflicts!
John Payne returns as that leading avenging angel and now gets the full front presentation from the get go, going from a peaceful cab-driver that soon gets mixed up in…
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A gun goes off and John Payne takes a bullet to the shoulder. Delirious, Payne drags himself across the dock, arm limp at his side, determined to take down his assailant. WHAM! A blow knocks him off his feet, and in a vivid close-up, Payne's face smashes up against a giant chain.
No one does noir intensity like Phil Karlson.
Listen to me discuss Phil Karlson on an episode of The Important Cinema Club Podcast
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Much better than I expected! Economical storytelling at it's best with plenty of tension.
A failed boxer is driving a taxi to make ends meet while his wife who wanted furs and diamonds is cheating on him with a thief. The thief has some diamonds that several people want. Things go south and she is killed and the cab driver is framed for it. He must try to find the guilty party before he winds up in jail.
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There are worse things than murder. You can kill someone an inch at a time.
-Ernie DriscollErnie Driscoll is a former prize fighter that lost the big one due to an accidental cut that damaged his right eye. It ended his career and he now earns money driving a cab while he endures his floozy of a wife constantly bitching at him. If that wasn't bad enough, he has a problem working towards his future goal of buying his own business because he's constantly dwelling on that one fight.
Now I've never been a huge fan of John Payne, but I really like him in Kansas City Confidential and now think he's even better here as Ernie Driscoll, the…
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"There are worse things than murder. You can kill someone an inch at a time."
Yeah... I don't think that's going to stand up in court, buster.
99 River Street will never be in the same conversation as the likes of Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon or Out of the Past. It's the epitome of pulp noir. It takes those genre tropes and just uses them as a framework to present what would have just been an entertaining popcorn flick in its day. But taken on those terms, what an absolute blast of a movie this is.
We've got the protagonist (who once coulda been a contender) getting yanked deeper and deeper into the shit (although in this case, he's…
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