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Overall Rank: 6400
Average Rating: 2.6/4
# of Ratings: 25
Theatrical Release Date: 01/16/1947
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Cromwell
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince, Marvin Miller
Plot: Bogart and a buddy return from WW II to go to an award ceremony, but quickly get wrapped up with shady underworld types. Of course, there's a dame involved. -- Topher
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2.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 05/30/2019
Complex film noir with Bogart trying to solve his friend's disappearance and what it has to do with gangsters and a gun moll (Scott).
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"Dead Reckoning"
Yojimbo - wrote on 05/05/2012
When a demobbed paratrooper disappears rather than face the publicity of accepting The Medal of Honour, his friend and captain disobeys orders and picks up his trail.
Humphrey Bogart and Film Noir had a very successful partnership and this example follows very much in the footsteps of his earlier successes. It does seem rather a weak link compared to his best however, as the script and direction perhaps try a little too hard to capture their hard-boiled style. The narration is rather clumsier, the dialogue less witty, the plot a little more predictable and the characters more stereotypical than the likes of The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep; Marvin Miller's heavy in particular comes across as something of a cartoon villain. The whole "putting women in my pocket" schtick goes beyond …
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