1950 · noir · crime · theft
Side Street
Directed by Anthony Mann1h 23m1950
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000. When he decides to return the money, things go wrong - and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
Our read: Side Street (1950) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded noir · crime · theft entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured noir / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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- intense
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