Criss Cross (1949 film)

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.


 * 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