Trailer
Plot summary
After two years of drifting to get over a divorce, Steve Thompson comes back to Los Angeles, moves in with his parents and his younger brother, and takes his old job driving for an armored car company where his father works. He spends his evenings at the Round Up, where he sees Police Lt. Pete Ramirez, a friend, and Anna, his ex-wife. Steve's mother and Pete both warn him away from Anna, and the two were married only seven months. Anna has married Slim Dundee, a gangster who drinks at the same bar. Steve wants Anna back, and he approaches Slim with a plan to rob his own truck.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Criss Cross (1949)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Tony Curtis made his uncredited screen debut in the film, appearing briefly as an extra dancing with De Carlo at the Round-Up Bar.
- The house where Lancaster's character lives with his mother, above the Hill Street Tunnel in Bunker Hill, was razed in 1955 for expansion of the Civic Center and a new Los Angeles County Courthouse.
