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“On Dangerous Ground” – A Hard-Boiled Trip to the Hinterlands
I wrote this introduction for The Mesilla Valley Film Society’s screening of On Dangerous Ground in December, 2023. Robert Ryan is Jim Wilson, an embittered big city detective who’s exiled to the intentionally ambiguous “Upstate” to track down a killer. Ida Lupino plays Mary Maiden, a blind woman who’s dragged into his quest through circumstance. He…