Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Claudio Carvalho The trucker Steve Randall (Steve Brodie) is an ex-GI that has fought in the war and has been married with Anne Randall (Audrey Long) for four months. Steve has a trunking business, but he arrives home with the intention of celebrating his wedding anniversary with Anne. He receives a phone call from a client that offers a small fortune to him to transport some goods that night and he does not have how to refuse.When he arrives at the spot, he finds that he was lured by the mobster Walt Radak (Raymond Burr) that wants to use Steve's truck to transport stolen furs. Steve does not accept the deal but is forced by Walt's gangsters to drive his truck. When he sees a police officer on the street, he blinks the headlights to call his attention. There is a shooting and the police officer is murdered and Walt's young brother Al is left behind and arrested by the police. Walt tries to force Steve to assume the murder to save his brother but Steve flees from the gangsters and travels with Anne, who is pregnant, to the countryside, pursued by Walt and his gangsters and by the police. When Steve finds a safe place for Anne in the farm of her Aunt Klara (Ilka Gruning) and Uncle Jan (Paul E. Burns), he goes to the police department and tells his story to Det. Lt. Louie Ferrari (Jason Robards) that does not believe in his words but let him go. Steve returns to the farm without knowing that Ferrari released him to be a bait to catch Walt and his men."Desperate" is a film-noir by Anthony Mann with a good story of pursue and death wish, with sordid characters, like for example the mobster, the car dealer, the detective lieutenant among others and good duel between Steve Brodie and Raymond Burr. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Desesperado" ("Desperate")

chaos-rampant Noir is a fascinating journey, especially if you follow patterns in the narrative.In the early stages before noir proper, the detective was everything, in the sense that he was responsible for the story coming together, everyone else including the viewer merely along for the ride. The logic of the exchange between viewers and a master storyteller allayed fears of a universe without order, the gap could be bridged, made sense of; the person existed who could restore missing parts of the narrative for us. A key thread is following this mode of detective fiction into the 40's, starting with Bogie's Falcon.A world war had shattered logic and all the other boring social insights. The world was no longer made of hard matter, it was fluid self, dreams, desire. It was surreptitious sex that could kill you. Writers-investigators could no longer be trusted, as evidenced in Laura, Indemnity, The Big Sleep. The thing had acquired life of its own spun from neon night.So it's a big transition when we arrive at something like this. The detective is only a footnote reporting back with trivial info and to collect expenses. He won't even make the arrest. The game is entirely left between ordinary desperate beings and capricious reality. The plot is that an ex-GI desired quick trucking money to pay for a baby in the pipeline and new home with his darling, a meagre $50, but his sense of what's right rebels late in the night and crooks will be looking across the country for the two of them.Again the woman is pure. There is a wedding scene back in Minnesota among immigrant family that reflects everything that is stable and good in her blood.Our loss is that Mann was always about what's real and pains, together with some handy psychologic workaround. So we get a simple thriller that benefits from a semi-conscious understanding of noir.A deeper way to deliver the story would be center the main anchor on self and let the noir flow be all about guilt that he feels for leaving his girl alone at nights. The anchor is that someone is scheduled to die at midnight.

st-shot After being unwittingly dragged into a heist that goes gone wrong truck driver Steve Randall ( Steve Brodie) and wife Ann (Audrey Long) take it on the lam not only to escape the police but also Radak (Raymond Burr) who wants to revenge his brother getting the chair.One of a handful of well made B noirs made by director Anthony Mann in the forties Desperate is a bit of a threadbare They Live by Night with Brodie and Long giving decent performances as the on the run duo and Burr and imposing one as the cold sadistic thug. Mann moves the film at a brisk enough pace while he and cinematographer George Dyskant provide some of their standard noir canvases, especially a staircase finale, to amp up suspense.

blanche-2 Anthony Mann's neat noir "Desperate" is a 1947 film starring Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, and Jason Robards Sr. Brodie plays Steve Randall, a newly married young man who takes a last-minute trucking job for good money, only to find out that he'll be carrying stolen goods. He refuses. However, he is forced into the job with threats against his wife (Audrey Long). While en route with the cargo, he signals the cops with his headlights; one of his captors, the younger brother of the head man, Radak (Burr) kills a cop. Randall and his wife go on the run while Radak, wanting to avenge his brother's death row sentence, goes after them.A very exciting and absorbing film with fast-paced direction by Anthony Mann. Mann had great style - he used lights and shadows wonderfully - the light swinging in the room, alternately hiding and showing Burr's face, and the stunning denouement on a winding staircase - first rate.Until he played Perry Mason, Raymond Burr usually played characters who were as mean as dirt, and this is no exception. Brodie and Long make a likable couple in whom the audience becomes invested. Long is lovely -I guess being married to Leslie Charteris, the man who wrote "The Saint," she didn't need to work, though, so her career seems to have ended shortly after they married in 1952. Jason Robards Sr. is effective as Ferrari, the investigator Steve attempts to convince of his innocence.Highly recommended.