Monday, 24 August 2015

City of Fear (1958, rel 59 Irving Lerner)

Lots of great location photography in cars (Burnett Guffey) - one of the edits is almost Godard Bout de Souffle. Somewhat daft story of criminal on the run who has stolen a cannister of Cobalt-60, a highly radioactive substance which you get knocking around in prisons - it can endanger the whole city and starts leaking into the bodies of those near it.

Vince Edwards is the culprit, Patricia Blair his girlfriend.

Has an extraordinarily silly finale in which the police, knowing of the whereabouts of the man and the chemical, announce their arrival with sirens, thus giving him the chance to run again.

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