Criss Cross (1949 film)

Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson and Yvonne DeCarlo as Anna Dundee.

Criss Cross is a 1949 film about an armored truck driver and his ex-wife (now married to a mobster) who conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.

Directed by Robert Siodmak. Written by Daniel Fuchs, based on the novel Criss Cross by Don Tracy.

When you Double-Cross a Double-Crosser...IT'S A CRISS-CROSS!(taglines)

Steve Thompson

• A man eats an apple. He gets a piece of the core stuck between his teeth. He tries to work it out with some cellophane from a cigarette pack. What happens? The cellophane gets stuck in there too. Anna? What was the use. I knew that somehow I'd wind up seeing her that night.

Detective Lieutenant Pete Ramirez

• I should have been a better friend. I shoulda stopped you. I shoulda grabbed you by the neck, I shoulda kicked your teeth in. I'm sorry, Steve.

Dialogue

Steve Thompson: She's all right, she's just young.

Mrs. Thompson: Huh! Some ways, she knows more than Einstein.

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Steve Thompson: I take my hat off to you.

Anna Dundee: Yeah... yeah, I'm a prize.

Steve Thompson: Tramp.

Anna Dundee: Tell me all about it.

Steve Thompson: Tramp! Cheap little no good tramp!

[gets up to leave]

Anna Dundee: Stick around. You make it all so nice and sad.

Taglines

• When you Double-Cross a Double-Crosser...IT'S A CRISS-CROSS!
• They played it with BULLETS!

Cast

• Burt Lancaster - Steve Thompson
• Yvonne DeCarlo - Anna Dundee
• Dan Duryea - Slim Dundee
• Stephen McNally - Det. Lt. Ramirez
• Esy Morales - Orchestra Leader
• Tom Pedi - Vincent
• Percy Helton - Frank
• Alan Napier - Finchley
• Robert Osterloh - Mr. Nelson
• Griff Barnett - Pop
• Meg Randall - Helen
• Richard Long - Slade Thompson
• Joan Miller - The Lush
• Edna Holland - Mrs. Thompson
• John Doucette - Walt

External links

• Criss Cross quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Criss Cross at Allmovie
• Criss Cross at Rotten Tomatoes