1h 39min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 28 October 1958 | Color, WS
Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland.
Robert Sidney ... dance numbers staged by
Not a musical, and only the title song in the Soundtracks. But CC dances in a full production number at least twice. But it's only instrumental music, and even AFI has only the title song. So there's no way to list her dances in the Soundtracks, and therefore little way to justify a Music/al tag.
Rated 5 on 2015-07-28. I can only guess that I was unhappy with the 30's gangland Chicago story. (Her dancing doesn't fit that era, btw; it's strictly contemporary.)
RT (b. '11) looks much older than that. CC (b. '22) looks a bit tired around the eyes too. Only 1 more musical with CC in '61, and she is far, far down the cast list.
I find the story effective, and the dancing pleasant, so I'm bumping up the rating. But this is not terrific, so a 6 will do.
Euterpe, distr. MGM, dir. Ray; 6
