1950 · noir · mob · kidnapping
Try and Get Me!
Directed by Cy Endfield1h 25m1950
A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.
Our read: Try and Get Me! (1950) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded noir · mob · kidnapping entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme noir / mob, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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