Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Desert Fury (1947)


The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

Unusual Noir melodrama in Technicolor has good story and atmosphere, and Lizabeth Scott holds it all together very well, but the male protagonists are all a shade sallow.

Halliwell (no star): "Muddled melodrama slightly helped by Arizona colour settings; unconvincing characters mouth unspeakable lines in an airless tedium."

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