Crimeways’ gimmick, which is its most popular feature, is the magazine’s ability to track down criminals on police wanted lists by using George’s “clueboard,” a big bulletin board posting crime clues and the criminal’s personality from which the staff anticipate the criminal’s moves in order to nab him or her. He is in the habit of twirling his mustache and acting like a tyrant with his employees and in particular getting under George’s skin. George Stroud (Ray Milland) is an athletically built family man and an excellent crime journalist who works on Crimeways Magazine, one of many publications owned worldwide by the heavy-set megalomaniac Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton), a Hearst-like tycoon figure. Furthermore Seitz’s close-ups of the villain fascinatingly zeroes in on the contorted facial expressions of the power-hungry magnate gone amok–enhancing Laughton’s brilliant performance. ![]() John Seitz’s quality cinematography is memorable as it captures the isolation of the hero, Milland, in distress and the cold environment he is trapped in. A much revised version of the Fearing novel was No Way Out (86) starring Kevin Costner. ![]() It’s adapted from the leftist Kenneth Fearing’s novel and scripted by Jonathan Latimer. John Farrow directs this thrilling psychological film noir with style, though it’s barely a work of noir in the full sense of that genre. Seitz editor: Gene Ruggiero music: Victor Young cast: Ray Milland (George Stroud), Charles Laughton (Earl Janoth), Maureen O’Sullivan (Georgette Stroud), George Macready (Steve Hagen), Rita Johnson (Pauline York), Elsa Lanchester (Louise Patterson) Runtime: 95 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Richard Maibaum Paramount 1948) ![]() (director: John Farrow screenwriters: Jonathan Latimer/from the novel by Kenneth Fearing cinematographer: John F.
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