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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780738932194
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 0738932191
Label: Sony Wonder (Video)
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Sony Wonder (Video)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Wonder (Video)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Running Time: 79 minutes
Studio: Sony Wonder (Video)
Theatrical Release Date: May 26, 1948
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
After the success of T-Men, ambitious poverty-row studio Eagle-Lion reunited director Anthony Mann with cinematographer John Alton and beefy star Dennis O'Keefe for this change of pace, a haunting revenge noir about an escaped criminal, his loyal girlfriend (Claire Trevor), and a lovely legal aide (Marsha Hunt) he drags along as a hostage... or perhaps something more. Raymond Burr is the sleazy, sadistic gangster who double-crossed O'Keefe; in the film's most memorable scene he lashes out at a clumsy party girl by tossing a tureen of flaming cherries jubilee on the hapless woman (the scene may well have inspired Fritz Lang in The Big Heat). Trevor narrates in a cold, deliberate, yet hauntingly effective tone, which matches the foggy mist that envelopes the characters from the initial escape (a brilliant exercise in minimalism), through the getaway down a wooded coastal highway, to the finale on the San Francisco docks. Mann provides his usual undercurrent of brutal violence (a fight in a taxidermy showroom in which the antlers of a mounted buck become a lethal weapon), but the film is pervaded by a sense of doomed romanticism not seen in Mann's films before or since, and the volatile romantic triangle adds a further edge to the moody tension. Rife with B movie dialogue, the film may come off stilted and campy to some viewers, but taken on its own stylized conventions it's a minor masterpiece of low-budget film noir. --Sean Axmaker
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
"Raw Deal" was one of three films in the film noir style that combined the talents of director Anthony Mann with those of cinematographer John Alton. The others were "T-Men" (1947), a top-notch film noir brimming with identity confusion and moral chaos, and "He Walked by Night" (1948), a noir police procedural that inspired the television series "Dragnet". "Raw Deal" is not as strong as those other Mann/Alton collaborations in its script or its style. Nevertheless, the hard-boiled dialogue and convincing ... Read More
Rating:  -
Good cast and story line but the disc was not clean. It stopped operating during it's initial play on my DVD player. The message I received when I attempted to restart the disc was a simple one --- "Disc is dirty" or something along those lines. I finally got the disc to play properly by cleaning both sides of the disc with a rough sewn cloth.
I was disappointed with the condition of the disc.
Raymond C
Rating: -
Director Anthony Mann and photography whiz John Alton combined for several film noirs in the late 1940s and this was one. Most of them had the same feel which meant great photography and an okay-but-nothing-spectacular story.
This one was different in that in had a female doing the narration. I wouldn't mind that but in this kind of hard-boiled film, a feminine voice such as Claire Trevor's didn't sound right. Now, if she an edge to her a la Marie Windsor or Ann Savage, fine, but Trevor's voice ... Read More
Rating:  -
Raw Deal is one of my favorite Film Noir movies. The characters are gritty and real, the plot isn't predictable and the film was recreated by the artistic team of director Anthony Mann and cinematographer John Alton. Alton is famous for his dark moody Noir lighting and camerawork.
The Sony Wonder/Classic Media disc is remastered so the image is crisper than the previous version of this movie available on DVD. This is a double-edged sword however as the film images were brightened and the contrast reduced ... Read More
Rating: -
This hard-as-nails potboiler was made for pennies at a Poverty Row studio by Mann and his legendary cinematographer, John Alton. Like the very best films in this genre, there's plenty of raw dialogue, heart-fluttering suspense, and a square-jawed tough guy who isn't afraid to blast away at his nemeses. But the sizzling love triangle that develops between Joe, Pat, and Ann is a perversely clever plot twist that contributes much to the fatalistic tone, with Trevor's cold-hearted voiceover to top it all off. Burr's ... Read More
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