I wanted to watch this film because the idea of a film noir in color that works always intrigues me
.especially one with Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott & Mary Astor
..unfortunately, it doesn't work here
.which, for me, leaves "Chinatown" as the only color noir that's true to the genre
.Desert Fury is not really film noir- more like a melodramatic soap opera with a very soap opera score by Miklós Rózsa
..and terrible 'soap opera' over-acting with the exception of Lancaster
.add in a thin storyline and poor editing, leaving only the above average cinematography (great desert landscapes) to appreciate
..
Plus it always cracks me up when characters in any movie of any era meet each other, kiss a couple of times and all of a sudden they're 'in love' with each other and the storybook ending where the bad guys die and the couple walks off into the sunrise together is not remotely film noir ..for the real stuff, watch "Out of the Past", "The Killers", "Double Indemnity" or the "Asphalt Jungle" ..
Plus it always cracks me up when characters in any movie of any era meet each other, kiss a couple of times and all of a sudden they're 'in love' with each other and the storybook ending where the bad guys die and the couple walks off into the sunrise together is not remotely film noir ..for the real stuff, watch "Out of the Past", "The Killers", "Double Indemnity" or the "Asphalt Jungle" ..