Criss Cross (film)

Criss Cross (film)

Criss Cross is a 1949 film noir, directed by Robert Siodmak from Don Tracy's novel Criss Cross. This black-and-white film was shot partly on location in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles. The film was written by Daniel Fuchs. Franz Planer's cinematography creates a black-and-white film noir world. Miklós Rózsa scored the film's soundtrack. The film was remade as The Underneath in 1995.

The production nearly derailed when producer Mark Hellinger died suddenly before filming began. Lancaster claimed he was unhappy with the way Siodmak and Fuchs had reworked Hellinger's idea of a racetrack heist into a fatal romantic triangle.