They Made me a Fugitive AKA I Became a Criminal (1947)

[cigar joe]

WOW!!!, I would almost call this the best British Noir, but I'd have to watch Night and the City again. Anyway this has two titles not to be confused with the Garfield flick of the same name. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039895/



Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, with Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, and Griffith Jones

Storyline from IMDb:

The London Underworld features in this dark and extremely gritty film noir. Trevor Howard plays a cynical ex-RAF flyer named  Morgan, bored with civilian life, he joins a break-in gang led by Narcy. On his first job, the getaway car crashes after killing a policeman. Morgan is framed as the driver and sent to jail. Seeking revenge, he escapes and heads for London. Along the way he's helped by a woman (Mrs. Fenshaw), who wants him to murder her husband. In London, Morgan is sheltered by Sally, who falls in love with him. He confronts Narcy and the gang in an abandoned warehouse. Brazilian Director Cavalcanti's great crime drama.

The London Gang in their funeral parlor HQ



Morgan (Howard) during his escape from prison



Narcy the Crime boss



Narcy roughing up Sally (Sally Gray)



The woman who makes an unusual request



Morgan getting his revenge



Its always great to find a Noir off most peoples radar. I enjoyed the story and the cinematography quite a bit the final sequences are a maze of dark alleys waterfronts and railroad viaducts, nice job. The final denouement atop the funeral parlor below.



I'll be looking to pick this one up when I can 10/10

[titoli]

Anyway this has two titles not to be confused with the Garfield flick of the same name. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039895/

Judging by the title on the cover this would be quite difficult to confuse with the Garfield flick. 

[cigar joe]

well



and this variation on the title

[titoli]

I doubt that They Made me a Fugitive can be confused with They Made me a Criminal. Same goes for I Became a Criminal and TMMAC. You did though, apparently.

[drinkanddestroy]

I just saw this movie on TCM; I give it a 7.5/10 (Both image and sound quality were awful; perhaps that affected my rating.)
Sally Gray is smoking hot  

[Groggy]

Saw this one a year or two ago, remember liking it a lot.

[drinkanddestroy]

Where did you guys see this - on TCM or on a DVD? Has a DVD of this been released? As I mentioned, the TCM print is atrocious; I would hope that there is a DVD out there that is of better quality.

[cigar joe]

A DVDr of an AVI file if I remember right.

[Groggy]

Where did you guys see this - on TCM or on a DVD? Has a DVD of this been released? As I mentioned, the TCM print is atrocious; I would hope that there is a DVD out there that is of better quality.

It was on Netflix streaming awhile back, don't know if it's still there.