On Dangerous Ground (Dark Highway) (1951)

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"26.4. 2024 A city cop is sent to a remote, snowy town to solve a murder case with a local sheriff. The hot-headed cop experiences new feelings when he meets a blind woman with a secret. In the core of the film is violence and hypocrisy: the main character is a violent cop whose job is paradoxically to prevent violent crimes. Helpless individuals can only truly trust themselves when they witness the failure of the society. The director Nicholas Ray achieved the realistic feel by examining a homi"

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"Perched between late-‘40s noir and mid-‘50s crime drama, On Dangerous Ground is one of the great, forgotten works of the genre. Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) is a time-bomb of a New York cop, tormented by the urban squalor he sees around him; after roughing up one too many crooks, he’s assigned to track down a killer in wintry upstate, where he falls for Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), the main suspect’s blind sister. Easily mushy, the material achieves a nearly transcendental beauty in the hands o"