Drive A Crooked Road [1954] [DVD]Mickey Rooney (actor) Dianne
Foster (actor) Format: all-region dvd (worldwide) Runtime: 82 min Quality: Digital
Here's a prime example of a Hollywood B-melodrama, originally released here as the support to Alec Guinness's Father Brown. Director Richard Quine's first thriller (he made the
excellent Pushover the same year), this tautly paced Columbia action tale reminds us of what a talented film-maker he was, and how underrated he is today.
The style may be a little drawn-out
for contemporary tastes, and star Mickey Rooney's tendency to chew the scenery has not worn well. But Dianne Foster is an attractive foil, and familiar faces Kevin McCarthy and Jack Kelly add the
appropriate grit in supporting roles. Quine would later cast Rooney brilliantly as Jack Lemmon's "Mr Fixit" in the hysterical Operation Mad Ball.
Crime drama starring Mickey Rooney and Dianne
Foster. In search of a quick getaway from a planned heist, two bank robbers approach car mechanic and ace driver Eddie Shannon. But honest Eddie wants no part of their scheme that is, until seductive
Barbara Mathews appears on the scene. |