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"With great narrative economy and an immediate sense of fatality Criss Cross begins deep in the noir world and stays there. All the events are tied to that first fatal moment in the nightclub which ultimately bears a similar weight in the narrative to the opening of The Killers (1946). The plot closely resembles that of the earlier film with the character played by Lancaster in both films at the centre of a heist and double-cross. The true nature of his relationship with a femme fatale is gradually revealed through flashbacks."@en
"An armored car driver secretly meets his ex-wife and then tries to convince her hoodlum husband that he met her only to get her husband's help in an upcoming robbery."
"An armored car driver secretly meets his ex-wife and then tries to convince her hoodlum husband that he met her only to get her husband's help in an upcoming robbery."@en
"An armored car driver is suckered into a burglary by his ex-wife and her hoodlum husband. Multiple back-stabbing and double-crosses ensue."@en
"An armored car driver is suckered into a burglary by his ex-wife and her hoodlum husband. Multiple back-stabbing and double-crosses ensue."
""In the parking lot of the Round-Up Bar in Los Angeles, Steve Thompson meets secretly with his married lover, Anna Dundee, and reassures her that their plan to run away together will not fail. Steve then fights with Anna's gangster husband Slim inside the bar, but police lieutenant Pete Ramirez, Steve's old friend, breaks it up. Steve refuses to press charges against Slim, who is supposedly leaving for Detroit the next day, and Pete, disgusted by Steve's destructive behavior, leaves. Unknown to Pete, Steve, Slim and his gang are plotting to rob an armored truck, which will be driven by Steve, who works for an armored car company, and staged the fight to fool Pete. The next morning, as Steve and Pop, a co-worker and family friend, leave on their scheduled payroll run, Steve recalls the events that led him to commit robbery: Eight months before, Steve returns to his home in Los Angeles after two years of drifting. Although he fights the urge to see Anna, to whom he had been briefly married, he starts dropping by the Round-Up, the bar they used to frequent together. Eventually, he and Anna reunite, and she chastises him for not contacting her sooner. Passion between the combative couple quickly reignites, and they begin seeing each other again. Steve's renewed romance distresses both his mother and Pete, who distrust the manipulative Anna. Pete is particularly concerned because he knows that Slim is also after Anna. Then."@en