Criss Cross begins with a protracted aerial shot of Los Angeles over the chief composer of film noir Miklós Rózsa’s noir rating. The camera lastly stops and focuses on two lovers in a car parking zone startled after being caught in an embrace by passing headlights. Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) and his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne De Carlo) are planning to double cross her husband Gangster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea) after a planned armored automobile heist the next day.
If it isn’t arduous sufficient to swallow the idea that a tyre – generally seen in fours beneath most average vehicles …