Discussion of "Crossfire"

Directed by Edward Dmytryk, Crossfire (1947) opens in the shadows of a dimly lit Washington, D.C. apartment, where a Jewish civilian named Joseph Samuels is beaten to death. Police Captain Finlay (Robert Young) is assigned to investigate the seemingly motiveless crime and quickly zeroes in on a group of demobilized, world-weary U.S. Army soldiers who were seen drinking with Samuels earlier that evening. Among them is Corporal Keeley (Robert Mitchum), a cynical but level-headed soldier who realizes the prime suspect is his sensitive friend, Mitch Mitchell. Terrified and confused, Mitch has vanished into the city’s neon-lit nightlife, crossing paths with a disillusioned dance hall hostess named Ginny Tremaine (Gloria Grahame) while Keeley desperately tries to find him before the police do.

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