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Information
- Year
- 1957
- Runtime
- 96 min.
- Director
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Genres
- Drama, Film-Noir
- Rating *
- 8.0
- Votes *
- 18,493
- Checks
- 6,187
- Favs
- 804
- Dislikes
- 36
- Favs/checks
- 13.0% (1:8)
- Favs/dislikes
- 22:1
Top comments
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MrE2Me
Wow, the psychological brutality waged by the characters in this film is unrelenting. The lowest depths of human nature are plumbed. Great stuff. 12 years 1 month ago -
ChrisReynolds
The writing is brilliant, and everybody's on top form, especially Curtis as Sidney Falco, the "cookie full of arsenic", and Lancaster as J J. Hunsecker, the man with "more twists than a barrel of pretzels". 10 years 2 months ago -
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This movie ranks #12 in IMDb's Film-Noir Top 50
IMDb's Film-Noir Top 50
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This movie ranks #18 in Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown
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This movie ranks #28 in Roger Ebert's Great Movies
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This movie ranks #34 in iCheckMovies's 1950s Top 100
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This movie ranks #72 in Jennifer Eiss's 500 Essential Cult Movies
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This movie ranks #93 in A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese
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This movie ranks #97 in TSPDT's 1,000 Noir Films
TSPDT's 1,000 Noir Films
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This movie ranks #97 in TSPDT's 100 Essential Noir Films
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This movie ranks #116 in Library of Congress's National Film Registry
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This movie ranks #116 in Emma Beare's 501 Must-See Movies
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This movie ranks #220 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
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This movie ranks #257 in BFI's 360 Classic Feature Films Project
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This movie ranks #314 in Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time
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This movie ranks #319 in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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This movie ranks #423 in Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
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This movie ranks #546 in David Thomson's Have You Seen?
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This movie ranks #582 in Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
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This movie ranks #654 in The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection
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This movie ranks #850 in The New York Times's Book of Movies
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This movie ranks #869 in The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die
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