Viveca Lindfors

Dane Clark

Virginia Mayo

Edmond O'Brien

Gordon MacRae

Ed Begley

Frances Robinson

Richard Rober

Sheila MacRae

David Hoffman

Monte Blue

Russ Conway

John Daheim

John Dehner

Dick Gordon

Fred Kelsey

Charles Lane

Ray Montgomery

Ida Moore

John Ridgely

Charles Sherlock

Leonard Strong

Helen Westcott

Edward Biby

Paul Bradley

Joe Gilbert

James Gonzalez

Creighton Hale

Vinton Hayworth

Jack Hill

J. Louis Johnson

Charles Jordan

Douglas Kennedy

Mike Killian

Mike Lally

Will Lee

Carl M. Leviness

Max Linder

Pierce Lyden

Philo McCullough

Jack Mower

Jack Perrin

Anthony Redondo

Waclaw Rekwart

Harry Seymour

Frankie Van

Mack Williams

Harry Woods

Clifton Young

Ernest Anderson

Santiago Martínez

Vincent Sherman

Lawrence B. Marcus

Ben Roberts

Ivan Goff

Anthony Veiller

Daniele Amfitheatrof

Carl E. Guthrie

Thomas Reilly

William Wallace

Anton Grot

Milo Anderson

Leah Rhodes

Perc Westmore

Ray Forman

Gene Hibbs

Nick Marcellino

Eddie Voight

Don Alvarado

James McMahon

Stanley Jones

Frank Bjerring

Louis Jennings

Vic Johnson

Joan Joseff

Sidney Cutner

Ray Heindorf

Leo Shuken

Max Steiner

Alma Young

Maurice Murphy

Alma Armstrong

Herschel Brown

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Backfire

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

English

I didn't only break his back the last ten days, I broke his heart.

Backfire is directed by Vincent Sherman and collectively written by Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts and Larry Marcus. It stars Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O'Brien, Dane Clark, Ed Begley and Viveca Lindfors. Music is by Daniele Amfitheatrof and cinematography by Carl Guthrie.

While recuperating from wartime back injuries at a hospital, veteran Bob Corey (Macrae) is visited on Christmas Eve by a beautiful stranger with a message that his army friend Steve Connolly (O'Brien) is seriously injured and in trouble with the police. Upon release, and aided by his girlfriend nurse, Julie Benson (Mayo), Bob enters the labyrinthine underworld of post war Los Angeles in search of his friend.

The warning signs that this might not be a particularly sparky film noir are evident with the lie on the film's poster. Tantalisingly suggesting Mayo as a femme fatale type, the girl from "White Heat" is anything but since she's literally an angel of mercy. Pic is a trifle of nifty noir moments and awkwardly acted scenarios. That it's needlessly convoluted only makes the problems of the staid script come to light.

The problems faced by returning veterans was a recurring noir theme, and here, even though it's not pushed forward to the maximum, it at least gives the story some psychological heart. It has a good cast, good monochrome photography and is played out with some classic noir staples, but it's not all it can be, compounded by a weak finale that feels like a writers compromise. 6/10

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