99 RIVER STREET di Phil Karlson
Usa, 1953, 83’
Ernie Driscoll, an ex failed boxer, is barely getting by working as a taxist, while being repeatdly cheated on by his unsatisfied wife. When she is killed by her lover, a ruthless jewelry thief, Eddie finds himself stuck, chasen by the police and by the criminal’s henchmen, and can only count on the help of an aspiring actress, Linda.
Phil Karlson (Chicago, 2 July 1908 – Los Angeles, 12 December 1985), is one of the biggest directors of B-Movies in the history of American cinema. Never really able to make personal movies, a slave to the power of the studios, he was still able to give a strong and personal signature to big small-budget films like Kansas City Confidential, The Brothers Rico, The Phoenix City Story and epidian westerns such as Gunman’s Walk. He was able to get his revenge when he was older, becoming rich thanks to an autoproduced film, Walking Tall.
FILMOGRAPHY
Wife Wanted (1946)
Louisiana (1947)
Adventures in Silverado (1948)
Thunderhoof (1948)
Ladies of the Chorus (1948)
The Big Cat (1949)
Down Memory Lane (1949)
Lorna Doone (1951)
The Texas Rangers (1951)
Mask of the Avenger (1951)
Scandal Sheet (1952)
The Brigand (1952)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
99 River Street (1953)
Cavalcata ad ovest (They Rode West) (1954)
Hell's Island (1955)
5 Against the House (1955)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
Gunman's Walk (1958)
The Young Doctors (1961)
Kid Galahad (1962)
Rampage (1963)
The Silencers (1966)
A Time for Killing (1967)
The Wrecking Crew (1969)
I lupi attaccano in branco (1970)
Ben (1972)
Walking Tall (1973)
Framed (1975)
