Short Cut to Hell
A hired killer's latest contract goes awry when he's paid with stolen money and finds himself embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with those who hired him.
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"Towards the end of Short Cut to Hell, with the two principal characters holed up in an abandoned underground storage bunker and the police cars massed outside, there's a long quotation from the doom-freighted score Miklos Rosza wrote for Double Indemnity. It's one of several arresting details the movie provides (another is a newspaper from the previous decade, with the headline 'Allies Cross Siegfried Line'), details that pique interest but go nowhere in attempting to satisfy curiosity. Short Cut to Hell is an all but forgotten movie but a noteworthy one nonetheless, if on..."
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James Cagney's only directorial effort.
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A hired killer's latest contract goes awry when he's paid with stolen money and finds himself embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with those who hired him.