Short Cut to Hell

As B movies go, SHORT CUT TO HELL makes it pretty far. This is a tawdrier remake of Graham Greene's source novel for THIS GUN FOR HIRE with lower-rent sets, and lead actors less charismatic, but still very effective. In... Full review

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... Full review

Robert Ivers ,mainly in the first part ,gives an impressive performance:impassive ,deadpan,cold as ice ,he will make you shiver with his robotic swagger.When he kills the secretary after her boss,the directing(and performance) seems years ahead of its time.Ditto for the... Full review

Cagney revitalised not only several key texts but also film noir itself in this tragically lost exemplar of reflexive cinema. And because one such comes early, when we see our unmistakable protagonist lying on his back in a cheap rooming house bed, idly smoking up at the ceiling, the experience of watching this film becomes inextricably bound with that of its forerunner, This Gun For Hire , where the same scene occurs. ... Full Review

As a favor to an old friend, producer Alex Gordon, James Cagney turned director for the first and only time in his career with Short Cut to Hell. ... Full Article