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Anthony Mann (1906-1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s Westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann's cinematic universe than those tough Wild West action dramas featuring conflicted and secretive heroes. This brilliant Hollywood craftsman also directed fourteen electrifying crime thrillers between 1942 and 1951, among them such towering achievements in film noir as T-Men, Raw Deal, and Side Street. Mann was as much at home filming dark urban alleys in black-and-white as he was the prairies and mountains in Technicolor, and his protagonists were no less conflicted and secretive than his 1950s cowboys.

In these Mann crime thrillers we find powerful stories of sexual obsession (The Great Flamarion), the transforming images of women in wartime and postwar America (Strangers in the Night, Strange Impersonation), exploitation of Mexican immigrants (Border Incident), studies of the criminal mind (He Walked by Night), and Civil War bigotry (The Tall Target). Mann's forceful camera captured such memorable and diverse stars as Erich von Stroheim, Farley Granger, Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Richard Basehart, Ricardo Montalbán, Ruby Dee, and Raymond Burr.

The Crime Films of Anthony Mann features analysis of rare documents, screenplays, story treatments, and studio memoranda and reveals detailed behind-the-scenes information on preproduction and production on the Mann thrillers. Author Max Alvarez uses rare and newly available sources to explore the creation of these noir masterworks. Along the way, the book exposes secrets and solves mysteries surrounding the mercurial director and his remarkable career, which also included Broadway and early live television.

ISBN-13: 9781496840868

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

Publication Date: 03-25-2022

Pages: 330

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

Max Alvarez is author and illustrator of The Cinéphile's Guide to the Great Age of Cinema, and his essay on the Thornton Wilder Shadow of a Doubt screenplay appears in Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives. He has also written for Film History: An International Journal and Chicago Tribune. Find him at www.maxjalvarez.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

1 From Lomaland to Broadway 9

2 From Broadway to Hollywood 19

3 Dr. Broadway (1942) 35

4 Strangers in the Night (1944) 45

5 Two O'clock Courage (1945) 51

6 The Great Flamarion (1945) 60

7 Strange Impersonation (1946) 70

8 Desperate (1947) 76

9 Railroaded! (1947) 89

10 T-Men (1947) 101

11 Raw Deal (1948) 117

12 He Walked By Night (1948) 135

13 Follow Me Quietly (1949) 155

14 Border Incident (1949) 170

15 Side Street (1950) 191

16 The Tall Target (1951) 210

17 The Lost Noir of Anthony Mann 226

Postscript 241

Acknowledgments 248

Anthony Mann Crime Filmography 251

Notes 263

Archival Sources 302

Bibliography 304

Index 308