Edge of Doom

Infobox_Film
name = Edge of Doom


imdb_id = 0042428
producer = Frank King
Maurice King
director = Mark Robson
writer = Charles Brackett (uncredited),
Leo Brady (novel),
Ben Hecht (uncredited),
Philip Yordan
starring = Dana Andrews,
Farley Granger,
Joan Evans
music = Hugo Friedhofer
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
caption = Edge of Doom movie poster
released = August 3, 1950 U.S. release
runtime = 99 min.
language = English

"Edge of Doom" is a 1950 film noir shot in black and white. The film has never been released on video reportedly due to the subject matter. The film is considered one of the bleakest films of the 1950s. The story concerns a young mentally disturbed man who goes on a rampage after his sick mother dies. One of the man's biggest beefs is with the Catholic church who, in addition to slighting him when his mother needed a priest, once refused to bury his father years earlier because he committed suicide. The man, blaming the environment he lives in, goes on a rampage taking revenge on his cheap boss, a mortician and a priest who refuses to give his poor mother a big funeral. He began his rampage by killing the hard-line Catholic priest who slighted him by beating him with a heavy crucifix. Later, another priest suspects the young man, now arrested for another crime, for the killing. Cinematography by Academy Award winner Harry Stradling Sr.The film was directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay was written by Philip Yordan (with uncredited writing from screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles Brackett). The film is based on a novel by Leo Brady.

Cast

*Dana Andrews as Father Thomas Roth
*Farley Granger as Martin Lynn
*Joan Evans as Rita Conroy
*Robert Keith as Lieutenant Mandel
*Paul Stewart as Craig
*Mala Powers as Julie
*Adele Jergens as Irene
*Douglas Fowley as 2nd Detective

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