Synopsis
"
Kazan developed this engrossing policier – based on an actual unsolved crime, the murder of a Connecticut priest – with
Louis de Rochemont, inventor of the semi-documentary form so successful at Fox after WWII. While
Boomerang! adheres to central tenets of the semi-documentary (location shooting, notable use of nonprofessional extras, detached voiceover commentary), the film also hones in on the figure of the crusading District Attorney, played with signature virile nonchalance by
Dana Andrews, to create a gripping moral and epistemological puzzle about the ineluctability of truth and the dangers of cold, hard facts." – Harvard Film Archive
