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Title: THE STREET WITH NO NAME Year: 1947 Rating: ****1/2 |
Like James Cagney's more popular G-MEN, this dusty gem begins as sort
of an FBI propaganda film, showing the inner workings of the department
with a monotone "facts only" narration, yet soon
enough it settles darkly into a mean, lean mobster flick as we follow
agent Mark Stevens undercover along the titular urban street...
Stevens
as Gene Cordell, going by the bogus name of George Manly, then coasts into a
boxing syndicate led by the dependably-vile Noir favorite Richard Widmark as Alec
Stiles, who has solo time on screen, becoming an equal match of mobster
verses undercover agent...
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Joseph Pevney with Mark Stevens & Donald Buka in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
Although Steven's Manly is a bit too square-jawed and cop-looking to realistically pass as a thug, he's one helluva boxer and one particular fight sequence is fast and ferocious, earning him a place within the den of thieves.
Sublimely filmed and acted, this is an underrated Fox Film Noir with suspense that never lets up: both for Widmark, as he tries figuring out who the plant is, and the audience, anticipating what will become of our hero when he does...
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Donald Buka in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
And while Widmark's Stiles isn't as endearingly vile as his sinister giggling KISS OF DEATH icon Tommy Udo, he's more of a blunt bottom line: a short fuse with his lackey goons and an exploding bomb to a discontented trophy wife.
A standout of the thugs is a short knife-wielding Donald Buka (top picture) as Shivvy: in one scene he tales Stevens through the shadowy night and then, later on, meets him inside the cheap motel room with a veiled threat, asserting himself as an edgier menace than even Widmark: one of those rare crime flicks where the henchman's not only tougher, as per usual, but is actually smarter than the boss himself.
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Donald Buka in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
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Mark Stevens in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
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Mark Stevens in THE STREET WITH NO NAME with Joseph Pevney and Donald Buka
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Richard Widmark in THE STREET WITH NO NAME with Barbra Lawrence
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Richard Widmark in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
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Mark Stevens in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
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Mark Stevens in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
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Richard Widmark in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
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Richard Widmark in THE STREET WITH NO NAME with Joseph Pevney
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Goodfellas paid homage to this scene from The Street With No Name |
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Mark Stevens and Donald Buka in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
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Donald Buka in THE STREET WITH NO NAME |
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Mark Stevens in THE STREET WITH NO NAME
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