Dancing Around the Scene of the Crime
By Richard Z. Santos
December 14, 2011Normally, one doesn’t think of dancing when one thinks of crime films. Sure there’s the occasional Broadway adaptation like Chicago or Guys and Dolls, but most filmmakers don’t interrupt the heist to show some hoofing. Yet there is a time-honored tradition of singing in crime films. All the way from Marlene Dietrich in The Blue…