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On Dangerous Ground is a 1951 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino, and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the 1945 novel Mad with Much Heart by Gerald Butler .
A tough city cop is sent to a snowy mountain town to help solve a murder case and falls for a blind woman. Ida Lupino directed and starred in this 1951 drama about alienation and anomie in a fast-paced society.
- (8.2K)
- Drama, Film-Noir
- Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
- 1952-02-12
Jim Wilson, a violent and embittered New York detective, is sent to a rural murder case to calm down. There, he meets Mary Malden, a blind woman who might change his life. See ratings, reviews, cast and plot details.
- (19)
- Ida Lupino
- Nicholas Ray
- RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
New York cop Jim Wilson asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul...
- 2 min
- 24.2K
- Warner Bros.
Aug 19, 2019 · Read our review of Nicholas Ray's genre-defying, low budget gem On Dangerous Ground now streaming on the Criterion Channel.
Eleven years on the job as a NYPD police detective in dealing with criminals on a day in and day out basis has made Jim Wilson a cruel, bitter man, he using excessive force to beat out information from suspects.
Sep 10, 2012 · A superb noir thriller with a difference. Ray's second film with producer John Houseman (the first being They Live By Night) starts off in the sinister urban jungle, with Ryan's cop...
