The dame is out of his life. She is not out of his head. The guy (Burt Lancaster) tells us in his voice-over narration that he did not come back to Los Angeles to see his ex-wife (Yvonne DeCarlo, who later earned fame as the matriarch of TV's The Munsters). He did not go specifically to their old neighborhood to see her. They used to frequent a nightclub, but he assures us that he does not go there now hoping to see her. … more
"I didn't come back on account of her. It had nothing to do with her. I wasn't going to go looking for her. I didn't expect to run into her. I didn't particularly want to see her. I was sure of that if I was sure of anything. Then from the start it all went one way. It was in the cards or it was fate or a jinx or whatever you want to call it." Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) in Criss Cross is a drifter, taking jobs where he finds them. He'd … more