Word: duryea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Criss Cross is further brightened by some excellent supporting performances. The best are Stephen McNally's detective, Dan Duryea as a sarcastic thug who seems to have more common sense than anyone else in the cast, and Tom Pedi as a fat, greedy hoodlum who bubbles "That's the ticket, that's the ticket," while the mob is planning some program of frightfulness against honest citizens. As the criss-crossed lovers, Lancaster and De Carlo steadily plug the reliable old theme of all-for-love-and-the-world-well-lost. Audiences are not very likely...
Larceny (Universal-International) is as slick as the two con men (John Payne and Dan Duryea) who set out to fleece a pretty, not very bright war widow (Joan Caulfield). Their plot is to persuade the lady to finance a youth center as a war memorial to her hero-husband-or rather, as a paid-up charity benefit for themselves. Their dastardly scheme is clicking along like the southbound express when it develops a hotbox. Payne is far too successful as a lady-killer. He has a hard time convincing the widow that he is not part of the memorial...
Cars. The auto industry rolled out its 100-millionth car (the Duryea brothers built their first one in 1893). Because of suppliers' strikes, production last week was down to 102,368 cars and trucks, off 3,548 from the week before...
...years before The Little Foxes. They are a horrifying image of the newborn New South: a self-made, egomaniacal father (Fredric March); a deeply pious, almost mindless mother (March's wife Florence Eldridge); a mild-seeming, Machiavellian son (Edmond O'Brien); a whining, fatuous son (Dan Duryea); a diamond-hard daughter (Ann Blyth). Night & day they connive against each other; during any chance breathing spell they work on their neighbors...
Black Bart (Universal-International). Yvonne de Carlo (in glowing Technicolor) as Lola Montez; Dan Duryea and Jeffrey Lynn as rival swains and bandits. There is little illusion of quality about this western, and too little of the deadpan kidding that has made some other De Carlo pictures a pleasure...