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| Scott Brady and Peggy Dow in UNDERTOW Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2 |
Scott Brady, younger brother of tough guy legend Lawrence Tierney, is thrust into a wrong man noir before he even realizes where his feet are planted for director William Castle's UNDERTOW...
After talking about purchasing a rural lodge, he meets lovely good-girl Peggy Dow at a casino and then an airplane on the way to Chicago to peak up fiance Dorothy Hart: only the cops know he's an ex-con hated by a casino-owner named Big Jim... who we never actually meet and who he's eventually blamed for killing... as Scott becomes desperate enough to break into lead cop Bruce Bennett's home, pull out a gun and beg for help...
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| Scott Brady and John Russell in UNDERTOW |
And while there's a fair amount of tension and rugged atmosphere, a brisk pace and a nicely-shot, gray-walled aesthetic, UNDERTOW mostly makes like our leading hero, traipsing rather blindly from one location to another, where neither he or the audience is quite sure what the next clue will get him, or why...
Just a little over an hour, director Castle seems to be doing an imitation of the kind of gritty noirs where Brady played second fiddle, like HE WALKED BY NIGHT, but the chemistry between he and Peggy Dow (while Dorothy Hart alongside his best friend John Russell are predictably guilty from the get-go) make it a neat, perfectly-paired time-filler.
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Scott Brady in UNDERTOW
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| Scott Brady and Peggy Dow in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady and John Russell in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady and Peggy Dow in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady and John Russell in UNDERTOW |
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| John Russell in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady and Peggy Dow in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady and Peggy Dow in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady and Peggy Dow in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady in UNDERTOW |
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| Rock Hudson and Bruce Bennett in UNDERTOW |
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| Peggy Dow and Bruce Bennett in UNDERTOW |
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| Dorothy Hart and John Russell in UNDERTOW |
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| Robert Easton in UNDERTOW |
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| Dorothy Hart in UNDERTOW |
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| Dan Ferniel and Bruce Bennett in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady in UNDERTOW |
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| Scott Brady (looking like Ray Liotta) in UNDERTOW |
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