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Criss Cross (1949 film)

1950 film by Robert Siodmak

Criss Cross is a 1949 film about an armored truck driver and his ex-wife (now married to a mobster) who conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.

Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson and Yvonne DeCarlo as Anna Dundee.
Directed by Robert Siodmak. Written by Daniel Fuchs, based on the novel Criss Cross by Don Tracy.
When you Double-Cross a Double-Crosser...IT'S A CRISS-CROSS!(taglines)

Steve Thompson

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  • A man eats an apple. He gets a piece of the core stuck between his teeth. He tries to work it out with some cellophane from a cigarette pack. What happens? The cellophane gets stuck in there too. Anna? What was the use. I knew that somehow I'd wind up seeing her that night.
  • I am different. I never wanted the money - I just wanted you.

Detective Lieutenant Pete Ramirez

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  • I should have been a better friend. I shoulda stopped you. I shoulda grabbed you by the neck, I shoulda kicked your teeth in. I'm sorry, Steve.

Other

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  • Mrs. Thompson: What makes you think I don't understand? I understand! A girl puts on a piece of silk, and the next thing that happens, a young fellow like you is sure he knows exactly what he's doing.
  • Pop: Well, you know how it is. He's divorced, but he's still got her in his bones.

Dialogue

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Steve Thompson: She's all right, she's just young.
Mrs. Thompson: Huh! Some ways, she knows more than Einstein.
Steve Thompson: I take my hat off to you.
Anna Dundee: Yeah... yeah, I'm a prize.
Steve Thompson: Tramp.
Anna Dundee: Tell me all about it.
Steve Thompson: Tramp! Cheap little no good tramp!
[gets up to leave]
Anna Dundee: Stick around. You make it all so nice and sad.

Taglines

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  • When you Double-Cross a Double-Crosser...IT'S A CRISS-CROSS!
  • They played it with BULLETS!

Cast

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