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| Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. Year: 1959 Rating: **** |
Actually more like the previous years' COMPULSION than a modernization of Fyodor Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT... although that's exactly what it is, by title, and if Frank Silvera's friendly, complimenting homicide detective is reminiscent of the 1970's TV-cop COLUMBO, both are based on the same literary character...
And ironically, George Hamilton became a victim-of-persuasion from both determined constables and here, resembling Anthony Perkins with the combined personalities of either brainy COMPULSION killer... heavily into Atheist philosophy while inwardly justifying a necessary murder... he's more aimless than guilt-ridden...
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| George Hamilton in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. |
Overall, the B&W Los Angeles-set sequences between Hamilton's Robert and the affable yet clinging detective are no different in tone than existential conversations with deep-thinking heart-of-gold-hooker Mary Murphy, his best buddy (Wayne Heffney) or his sister's middle-aged fiance (seeming straight from an Actor's Studio workshop)... yet the overall stagey aspect's so upfront and natural, CRIME feels more intriguing than meandering...
And while never claiming to be a thriller, it's no melodrama either, fitting within a kind of Beatnik's soulless journey that... between the genuine street thug film noirs and the colorful counter-culture neo noirs... exists within the sharpened jazz-soaked cinema of the late 1950's, as unappreciated now as back then.
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George Hamilton in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. with Frank Silvera
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George Hamilton in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. with Mary Murphy
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George Hamilton in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. at Pacific Ocean Park
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George Hamilton in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. with Wayne Heffley
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George Hamilton in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. with Mary Murphy
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| George Hamilton in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. with Frank Silvera |
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