Underworld, U.S.A. (1961)

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Directed by

Samuel Fuller

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Cliff Robertson
Tolly Devlin

Dolores Dorn
Cuddles

Beatrice Kay
Sandy

Paul Dubov
Gela

Robert Emhardt
Earl Connors

Larry Gates
John Driscoll

Richard Rust
Gus Cottahee

Gerald Milton
Gunther

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Description: At the end of the 1950s Columbia Studios approached Sam Fuller about shooting a film based on a newspaper article that had caught the eye of producer Ray Stark. The story was about gangsters expanding their sphere of activity beyond the borders of New York and Chicago, but what especially intrigued Fuller was the fact that important members of the gang had transformed themselves from brutal cut-throats into model citizens who pay their taxes on time. This fundamental shift in the criminals’ approach to their livelihoods corresponds to the two decades separating the moment when young Tolly Devlin witnesses the brutal murder of ... (more)

Release date: 26 March 1961

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"Ei se Fullerin Samppa vain osaa pettää. Nihismi yhdistettynä komeaan kuvaukseen ja moraalisesti epämääräisiin hahmoihin. Sold. "

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"Samuel Fuller had a way of injecting, like steroids, a fatalistic energy into his films. The technical storytelling techniques employed in Underworld U.S.A. are some of the most unorthodox in classic American film; we repeatedly cross-cut between very different sets without any establishing shots to cushion the transition, and the camera nimbly trucks, crablike, across rooms to reveal major plot points without fanfare. The effect is disorienting—nearly inebriating—but it also in a way explai"