Desperate

film by Mann [1947]

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  • In Anthony Mann: The 1940s: film noirs

    Desperate (1947) was Mann’s first critical and commercial success and the first of his great noirs. He cowrote the original story about a truck driver (Steve Brodie) who runs afoul of a gangster (Raymond Burr) and his fur thieves and has to run for his…

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