The Painter and the Thief (2020)

The Painter and the Thief: Directed by Benjamin Ree. With Karl Bertil-Nordland, Barbora Kysilkova, Øystein Stene. An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.

“It was only fitting that Robert Siodmak directed Criss Cross, as he had also directed the filmu0026#39;s star, Burt Lancaster, in his first film three years earlier, and this one is Burtu0026#39;s farewell to noir and city suits, as he was about to begin his swashbuckling phase, and after that would don military uniforms and cowboy gear.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eCriss Cross is basically a u0026quot;big heistu0026quot; movie, full of people double crossing one another with alarming frequency, and to such a degree that the story is often hard to follow. Yvonne De Carlo is the love interest, and Dan Duryea is an exceptionally nasty bad guy even for noir. The setting is L.A., and there is much excellent location photography that makes the movie a treat for people who want to see what the city looked like before half of it was bulldozed to make way for the highways.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThereu0026#39;s nothing startling or especially new about this movie. It has a fine and somewhat eclectic supporting cast which includes Alan Napier and Richard Long, Steve McNally and Percy Helton. As in The Killers, thereu0026#39;s a strong air of fatalism in the movie, more oppressive here, with a darker tone, and a more Germanic, almost Langian feeling of hopelessness.”