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Film Noir | Robbery
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Best Film Promoting International Understanding | 1960
Harry Belafonte starred in this, the first film-noir with a black protagonist. Belafonte selected Abraham Polonsky, who had written and directed a famous noir, "Force of Evil (1948)," to write the script. As a blacklisted writer Polonsky used a front, John O. Killens, a black novelist and friend of Belafonte's. (In 1997, the Writers Guild of America officially restored Polonsky's credit.)
In some scenes, Robert Wise used infra-red film to give them a slightly distorted feel.
French director Jean-Pierre Melville credited this film with being a formative influence on his work and made references to it in his films.
Shelley Winters took the part without reading the script, based on her co-stars, director Robert Wise, and the fact that it would film in New York City.
French director Jean-Pierre Melville confessed that he owned a 35mm copy of this film and watched it more than eighty times.
"Kitty: [after kissing Ingram] That's good. But it was better when you wanted it."
"Slater: What you doin' with such a big ol' dog in New York? Burke: Never had a wife."
