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| Title: BLACK TUESDAY Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2 |
By the 1950's, twenty years after pioneering the crime/gangster genre, Edward G. Robinson was a kind of elder statesman of the subject... although sometimes he'd play good guys, even cops...
But in BLACK TUESDAY he was back in the previous decade's KEY LARGO mode... an antagonist so vile, everyone surrounding him, here in the initial death row prison setting, is good by comparison: making this crime film very noir...
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| Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly and Russell Johnson in BLACK TUESDAY |
As the second lead is the second prisoner set to die, and young Peter Graves has a partial heart-of-gold from the get-go, not even wanting to take part in the scheming escape liken to a heist, but with humans...
Winding up in a dark warehouse location as all the characters, including the pretty daughter of a slain guard and a kidnapped news reporter, remain for most of the picture, providing Robinson's best scenes to counterbalance with initial yet progressively reluctant partner Graves...
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| Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly and Russell Johnson in BLACK TUESDAY |
Who, while suffering a near fatal, rehabilitating gunshot wound from the break, juggles desperate soul-searching romance with the good girl (Sylvia Findley) while Robinson's tightly connected with loyal moll Jean Parker...
And, also backed by nasty gunmen Warren Stevens and Russell Johnson, the famous LITTLE CAESAR icon needed more screen-time leading to an overlong second-and-third act standoff — in a b-crimer that could have used more locations despite keeping its thriller template decently throughout.
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Edward G. Robinson in BLACK TUESDAY with Peter Graves
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| Sylvia Findley in BLACK TUESDAY |
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| Sylvia Findley in BLACK TUESDAY |
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| Milburn Stone in BLACK TUESDAY |
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Edward G. Robinson in BLACK TUESDAY with Jean Parker and Peter Graves
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Sylvia Findley in BLACK TUESDAY with Peter Graves
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| Sylvia Findley in BLACK TUESDAY with Peter Graves |
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Edward G. Robinson in BLACK TUESDAY with Jean Parker
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| Peter Graves in BLACK TUESDAY |
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| Edward G. Robinson in BLACK TUESDAY |
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| Edward G. Robinson in BLACK TUESDAY |
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| Peter Graves, Jean Parker and Russell Johnson in BLACK TUESDAY |
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| Peter Graves in BLACK TUESDAY |
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