Auf gefährlicher Straße (1954)
35KAuf gefährlicher Straße: Directed by Richard Quine. With Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly. An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.
“I should say that u0026quot;Drive a Crooked Roadu0026quot; probably wonu0026#39;t hold your attention quite as much as most movies that Iu0026#39;ve seen. Whatu0026#39;s mostly eye-opening about it is just seeing Mickey Rooney in a gritty role in a film noir. He plays Eddie Shannon, a mechanic with little aim in life. The high points in his daily routine are when his co-workers ogle women walking by the shop. But when he gets mixed up with the wrong woman, he suddenly finds himself involved in a bank robbery with apparently no way out.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile some people might assert that Mickey Rooney was miscast here, I beg to differ. In this role, he shows that he can be something totally different from the u0026quot;family-orientedu0026quot; roles with which heu0026#39;s usually been associated (though I best remember him from u0026quot;Itu0026#39;s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worldu0026quot; and u0026quot;Night at the Museumu0026quot;). This movie is approximately as gritty as the average film noir, and while itu0026#39;s not any kind of masterpiece, still worth seeing. As itu0026#39;s apparently not widely available on video or DVD, Portlandu0026#39;s video/DVD store Movie Madness has a copy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAlso starring Kevin McCarthy (of u0026quot;Invasion of the Body Snatchersu0026quot;) and Jerry Paris (the neighbor on u0026quot;The Dick Van Dyke Showu0026quot;).”
