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...Concrete Jungle. This strange, taut, jagged British crime movie crackles with the excitement of a cool jazz score and U.S.-born Director Joseph Losey's subtle vision of crime and the criminal...
What is most potently fascinating in Jungle is also most subtle: U.S.-born Director Joseph Losey's vision of the world of crime as a self-contained universe without external points of reference. Normal society judges and humanizes itself from ethical and spiritual vantage points that are above society. The terror of criminal society, as Losey presents it, is that it is a kingdom of one-eyed men, whose lack of ethical depth perception prevents them from seeing, knowing, or redeeming themselves...
...criminal-hero marked for destruction is a tight-lipped swaggering cock of the prison walk named Johnny Bannion (Stanley Baker). Even Chief Warder Barrows (Patrick Magee) caters to Bannion. Indeed, Losey's knowing development of the prison's internal and external linkup of influence peddling helps to strengthen his portrait of the criminal's hermetically sealed environment...
...psychopathic murderer of children has been shifted to a U.S. city in 1951 and altered in some other details-almost always for the worse-the new picture's close imitation of the German version's camera setups and sequence of shots suggests that Director Joseph Losey must have worn out a print of the original in the process of rehearsing himself...
...picture is also a decided step forward for Director Joseph Losey, who made the raggedly effective The Lawless. Here, with a feeling for understatement as well as wallop, he shows more assured control of a naturalistic style that makes his best scenes look as if they had been caught by a candid camera...