On Dangerous Ground (1951) was a film Ida Lupino acted in for RKO after she had started her own independent production company, The Filmakers, with Collier Young and Malvin Wald a couple years earlier. So she was already writing, directing, and producing her own films by this point.
In this film, her character is blind. She starred opposite Robert Ryan and was directed by Nicholas Ray. It is a unique mixture of genres, and over time has become recognized as a classic.
I’ve seen reports that she directed part of this movie when Ray took ill, though I haven’t found any direct sources for that yet.
originally published in The Vintage Classics on October 18, 2018
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