67%User score 67 percent
Cry of the City
1948 · Crime · Drama
User Score
13 votes
Just when the sounds make you feel crazy ... and the lights shine right through your head ... and everything starts to fly ...
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
Recommendations based on this film
CinemaSerf
August 28, 2023
This is an odd choice of Simenon novel to adapt into a film. It provides for a good role for James Mason as the drunkard solicitor "Sawyer" - a bright, intelligent operator who has hits the skids somewhat after his wife abandoned him, and he became oddly estranged from his daughter "Angela" (an effective, almost aloof Geradine Chaplin), with whom he shares a home. Otherwise, the rest of the roles are weak, wet even.…
Read the full review on TMDBReviews are written by the TMDB community, not by Stranger in the House's publisher.
