The Damned Don't Cry

About The Damned Don't Cry

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

The Damned Don't Cry (1950) is a crime film directed by Vincent Sherman. The film is filed under film noir, mobster, accountant, and death of son.

Joan Crawford takes the lead as Ethel Whitehead, David Brian as George Castleman, Steve Cochran as Nick Prenta, and Kent Smith as Martin Blackford. At 103 minutes long, it arrived in May 1950.

The screenplay is by Harold Medford and Jerome Weidman. It streams on TCM in the United States.

Scarface, The Big Heat, and Criss Cross make useful companions to The Damned Don't Cry, all filed under crime syndicate. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 63 votes and it carries a NR rating.