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| Title: CITY OF SHADOWS Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 |
Basically a reworking of the James Cagney early-1930's action/crime G-MEN in which he's funded by a mentoring, father-like, business-minded gangster to become a lawyer in the big guy's pocket...
In the Cagney flick, he chooses to work for the FBI instead... and here youngster-turned-twenty-something Jack Baer gets in a relationship with full-lipped b-movie beauty Kathleen Crowley, both seeing the shady errors in endearing mobster Victor McLaglen's ways, far too soon...
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| Anthony Caruso and Victor McLaglen in CITY OF SHADOWS |
With greedy henchman Anthony Caruso backed by muscular goon Richard Reeves, the misleadingly titled CITY OF SHADOWS... never really involving a particular city while mostly taking place in the bright shadowless daylight... could have been a walloping 1950's classic-gangster-throwback...
And while the villains mostly spout their planning-stages dialogue behind closed doors, and the couple never have to deal with flirtatious secretary June Vincent's abandoned potential, the 70-minute programmer-length potboiler (feeling rushed and edited-down from the usual 90-minute runtime) is still an effective little ride.
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| Kathleen Crowley in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Kay E. Kuter with Jimmy Grohman and Victor McLaglen in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Anthony Caruso and Victor McLaglen in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Nicolas Coster in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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Kathleen Crowley in CITY OF SHADOWS with Nicholas Coster
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| Kathleen Crowley in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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Kathleen Crowley in CITY OF SHADOWS with Richard Reeves
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Kathleen Crowley in CITY OF SHADOWS with Jack Baer
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| Jack Baer and Victor McLaglen in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| June Vincent and Jack Baer in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| June Vincent and Jack Baer in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Kathleen Crowley in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Richard Travis and Nicolas Coster in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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Anthony Caruso and Victor McLaglen in CITY OF SHADOWS with June Vincent
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| Anthony Caruso and Richard Reeves in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| June Vincent, Jack Baer and Kathleen Crowley in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Jack Baer and Kathleen Crowley in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Anthony Caruso in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Anthony Caruso and Kay E. Kuter in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Anthony Caruso in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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| Jack Baer, Kathleen Crowley and Victor McLaglen in CITY OF SHADOWS |
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