The Burglar (1957) Review

1. The Burglar (1957) directed by Paul Wendkos • Reviews, film + cast

  • I'd attribute it to the strangeness of the dynamics between the characters and the overall pieced together quality of the plot which from the opening scene of a ...

  • Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden, to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.

The Burglar (1957) directed by Paul Wendkos • Reviews, film + cast

2. The Burglar (Film, 1957) - MovieMeter.nl

  • Meer een gestileerd en grauw karakterportret van een derderangs juwelendief dan een film noir. De film werd prachtig in beeld gebracht maar het verhaal zelf was ...

  • Film noir / Thriller film geregisseerd door Paul Wendkos. Met Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield en Martha Vickers.

The Burglar (Film, 1957) - MovieMeter.nl

3. movie review: The Burglar (1957) - Robots With Coffee

  • 12 dec 2023 · It's just a dark movie, gang. Kind of unpleasant with an odd pace. It starts off quick, from introduction to their victim right to the heist.

  • What did you watch? The 1957 crime noir drama The Burglar. This one stars Dan Duryea, whom we’ve seen before as a bad guy in Too Late For Tears and Scarlet Street. Here he leads a group of cr…

movie review: The Burglar (1957) - Robots With Coffee

4. 'The Burglar' (1957) - Mark Voger

  • 22 mrt 2021 · The Burglar” — a dark, deadly serious, fatalistic noir — was advertised as if it was some kind of sex-kitten comedy. Oh, the humanity ...

  • The independently produced noir masterpiece “The Burglar” could not have been made within the Hollywood studio system. There would be too much fretting, too much meddling, too much adhering to prevailing standards. “The Burglar” is its own movie, through and through, and it fires on all pistons. The script, casting, direction, cinematography, editing, music, set design and location scouting are all dead on.

5. Blu-ray review: “The Burglar” (1957) - spryfilm.com

Blu-ray review: “The Burglar” (1957) - spryfilm.com

6. The Burglar (1957): Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield - 4 Star Films

  • 19 nov 2022 · The Burglar is instantly established with a pleasing visual geography. In fact, this kind of pervasively engaging visual landscape is ...

  • The Burglar is instantly established with a pleasing visual geography. In fact, this kind of pervasively engaging visual landscape is constantly being reinforced, and in his first feature, director…

The Burglar (1957): Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield - 4 Star Films

7. Review: The Burglar | everythingnoir

  • 23 mei 2015 · This is a good film and the finale on Atlantic City's Boardwalk with scenes in a circus and carnival settings is very good. Did Lady of Shanghai ...

  • The Burglar is a film based on a book and screenplay by noir great David Goodis.  Goodis went to Hollywood after the massive success of the movie Dark Passage was based on his novel.  He got fluste…

Review: The Burglar | everythingnoir

8. BURGLAR, THE - Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

  • A film noir that is more a character study of a small-time jewel thief than one concerned with its pulp story. A team of burglars headed by the brooding Nat ...

  • BURGLAR, THE (director: Paul Wendkos; screenwriters: David Goodis, from his novel; cinematographer: Don Malkames; editor: Herta Horn; cast: Dan Duryea (Nat Harbin), Peter Capell (Baylock), Jayne Mansfield(Gladden), Mickey Shaughnessy (Dohmer), Martha Vickers (Della), Wendell Phillips (Police Captain), Stewart Bradley (Charlie), Phoebe Mackay (Sister Sara), John Facenda (News Commentator); Runtime: 90; Columbia; 1957)

9. The Burglar ***½ (1957, Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers ...

  • 21 nov 2016 · But it is often admirably tense, imaginative and exciting. All this on a budget of just $90,000. Nevertheless, producer Louis W Kellman ...

  • In her first star role, Jayne Mansfield plays Gladden, sidekick of crook Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea), who sets out to steal the emerald necklace of a Philadelphia spiritualist. The moody 1957 film noir…

The Burglar ***½ (1957, Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers ...

10. The Burglar (1957) - Blu-ray.com

  • This little-known crime thriller stars Dan Duryea as a cunning jewel thief who targets the mansion of a wealthy evangelist as his final career heist.

The Burglar (1957) - Blu-ray.com

11. The Burglar 1957, directed by Paul Wendkos | Film review - TimeOut

  • 10 sep 2012 · This film noir first feature lays on the style from the start: a fake newsreel spotlights the wealthy spiritualist's diamond necklace ...

  • This film noir first feature lays on the style from the start: a fake newsreel spotlights the wealthy spiritualist's diamond necklace targeted by Duryea and coh

12. The Burglar - DVD Talk

  • 13 mei 2014 · The 1957 film noir The Burglar is the kind of film that I'm almost compelled to embrace and champion as a lost curiosity. Directed by Paul ...

  • Burglar (1957) (Sony Choice Collection), The

13. The Burglar (1957) - Movie Review and Showtimes - New York Magazine

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14. The Burglar (1957) - Mike's Take On the Movies

  • 29 apr 2018 · Dan's a world weary lifer in the crime game with an air of doom about him as he and his gang of thieves score that one big heist that should set them on easy ...

  • It may have taken Jayne Mansfield’s sudden ascension to Marilyn Monroe like status in the latter part of the 1950’s to get this Noir tale a proper release but it’s Dan Duryea in t…

The Burglar (1957) - Mike's Take On the Movies

15. The Burglar (film, 1957) - FilmVandaag.nl

  • Nat Harbin, een professionele oplichter, wil samen met zijn twee kameraden Sister Sara beroven. Sister Sara, een spiritiste, heeft onlangs een groot…

The Burglar (film, 1957) - FilmVandaag.nl

16. The Burglar - Chicago Reader

  • 24 aug 2021 · This 1957 noir, his first, has amazing flourishes even if the storytelling sometimes goes slack. With the help of two pals and the stepsister ...

  • Paul Wendkos has directed both paranoid stylistic triumphs and bland programmers. This 1957 noir, his first, has amazing flourishes even if the storytelling sometimes goes slack. With the help of two pals and the stepsister who loves him, a career thief steals a necklace from a wealthy spiritualist, only to be pursued by a crooked […]

The Burglar - Chicago Reader

17. Essential Film Noir Five Blu-ray - Alan Ladd / Peter Lorre / Dan Duryea ...

  • 8 dec 2023 · Review: Imprint - Region FREE - Blu-ray. Box Cover. CLICK to order ... The Burglar (1957): 1:30:23.418 13 West Street (1962): 1:19:56.792.

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18. Tag Archives: The Burglar (1957) - Pulp Curry

  • 25 mei 2014 · In the cinema audience is career burglar Nat Harbin (long time TV and movie actor, Dan Duryea). So keen is he to get to work on what could be ...

  • Posted on May 25, 2014 by Andrew Nette| 6 Comments

19. The Burglar (1957): The last b-movie? - Film Noir

  • 1 jun 2013 · One of the few films where David Goodis adapted his own novel for the screen, The Burglar is a brooding story where decency is a 'dark ...

  • One of the few films where David Goodis adapted his own novel for the screen, The Burglar is a brooding story where decency is a ‘dark passage’ to destruction. A flashback provides the …

The Burglar (1957): The last b-movie? - Film Noir
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