Crossfire (film)

Crossfire is a 1947 film noir drama film which deals with the theme of antiSemitism, as did that years Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentlemans Agreement. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel The Brick Foxhole by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks. The film features Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame. It received five Academy Award nominations, including Ryan for Best Supporting Actor and Gloria Grahame for Best Supporting Actress. It was the first B movie to receive a best picture nomination.

Meanwhile, Sergeant Keeley Robert Mitchum, concerned that his friend Mitch George Cooper may be the prime suspect, decides to investigate the murder to clear his friends name. To both investigators, each suspected soldier relays his version of that night through flashback. The first to step up is Montgomery Robert Ryan and the rest are Floyd Steve Brodie, Mitch, and a possible witness Ginny Gloria Grahame.As Finlay and Keeley slowly piece together the fragments of that night, they realize there is one possible motive that may have driven the killer to beat an innocent to death, which prompts Finlay to set up a trap to expose the killer. ........

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