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1947
Boomerang! is a 1947 American crime semidocumentary film noir based on the true story of a vagrant accused of murder. It stars Dana Andrews, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Arthur Kennedy and Jane Wyatt, with voiceovers by Reed Hadley.
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The dark realities of the Second World War affected Hollywood, most notably in the new ways its films covered crime. Apart from the style that would later become known as "film noir", another was a striving for realism and authenticity. Such works were called "semi-documentary", and one of the best known among them was *Boomerang!*, a 1947 film directed by Elia Kazan. The script by Richard Murphy is based on real ev…More
