Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

grizzledgeezer "Channel 65.3 presents... Miserable, Miserable Movie!"The only "dangerous crossing" is from the sidewalk into the theater. (Don't do it!) It must not have occurred to Fox that if you wanted to get people back into the theaters, you should make good movies. This isn't one of them."Dangerous Crossing" is based on a radio play by the popular mystery writer John Dickson Carr, and was probably made for no better reason than to help amortize the "Titanic" sets.The script is lame and amateurish, with dialog suggesting a first draft from people who've never written a screenplay. As clichéd as it is, it never gets really bad enough to evoke laughter until the last ten minutes.The plot -- such as it is -- is so contrived that it's not merely implausible, but beyond unbelievable.The acting never rises above the competent, but even a "just competent" Michael Rennie adds a touch of class. Jeanne Crain has never impressed me; here she oscillates between scared/upset and faux-slutty.Joseph Newman was a strictly journeyman director. * His direction is largely perfunctory. He makes no effort to build and maintain the sense of paranoia needed, and he even includes voice-overs from the radio play for Ms Craine, so we know exactly what she's thinking. No one bothered to tell the writer that this was a movie, where you can actually //see// the actors, the better ones of which are capable of conveying emotion without dialog.This is a model film -- of how not to write, how not to act, and how not to direct. Anyone considering a career in the motion picture industry should view it, simply as an object lesson.* If it weren't for "This Island Earth", he would likely be forgotten.

Alex da Silva Ruth (Jeanne Crain) and John (Carl Betz) board a ship for their honeymoon. However, within 15 minutes of sailing, John has disappeared. Not only has he disappeared but there has never been any trace of him and there are no witnesses that have seen the couple together. The room that they originally booked into is now empty and only Ruth's suitcases seem to be located on board - in a different room! So begins the mystery. The film follows Ruth's attempts to locate her husband while we are introduced to a suspicious cast of characters. No-one believes her story and even the confidante that she finds in Dr Paul Manning (Michael Rennie) has his doubts. She receives a phone call in her cabin from John saying that they are both in danger.......The film gets you involved from the beginning and you know that something sinister is occurring. The various characters are introduced to us - eg, stewardess Anna (Mary Anderson), single traveller Kay (Marjorie Hoshelle), steward Jim (Casey Adams) and a foreign passenger with a walking stick (Karl Ludwig Lindt) - and we are never quite sure what is in the back of their minds. Even Dr manning is not above suspicion. The fog horn that continually sounds adds to the tension in the night scenes and it is a well acted film by all.

Arun Vajpey Although the story where a person seems to disappear without trace and no one believes he or she existed except their companion has been repeated often, I had high hopes for DANGEROUS CROSSING. But the movie was ultimately disappointing because of uninspired handling of a good plot. No one involved seemed to be very interested in what was going on and the sequence of events looked horribly contrived. Jeanne Crain's hysterical overacting gets on one's nerves 10 minutes into the film and never lets go. Dull direction and wooden performances by rest of the cast do not help much and even the normally reliable Michael Rennie looks like he wants to be somewhere else. Overall a forgettable little film.

Michael O'Keefe Fox Film-Noir. Joseph Newman directs Jeanne Crain, who probably was borderline verging the higher echelon of leading ladies. The attractive Crain plays Ruth Bowman, a blushing bride so proud of her new husband John(Carl Betz). The honeymoon is to be a transatlantic voyage...romantic with magical delights. But chaos begins when John leaves his bride in their cabin to go to the purser...he never arrived there and never came back to his new wife, who is shifting into a delirious frenzy. No one on board has any record of his existence. Instead of a happy honeymoon it is frantic hysteria for Ruth, who must prove she is actually married and that John does exist. The only person on board who feels Ruth's ordeal is real and not imagined is the ship's physician, Dr. Paul Manning(Michael Rennie), who might have some deeper feelings for his newest patient. Other players include: Mary Anderson, Marjorie Hoshelle, Willis Bouchey and Max Showalter.