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Dead Reckoning [1947] Ex soldier Humphrey Bogart comes home to find his best army friend
has disappeared in a corrupt city and investigates, coming across devastating
and murderous nightclub chanteuse Scott, with whom he has a torrid but
doomed affair, and a group of especially brutal gangsters whose control
of a nightmarish city calls into question the worth of the overseas
War the good guys have just fought. Not a top flight Bogart noir, but
a cherishable experience nevertheless, with shadowy photography and
many eerie city by night scenes. Bogart narrates the story in flashbacks
as he explains what has happened to his priest, Scott's breathless croak
makes her one of the most sexually ambiguous and destructive of '40s
femmes fatales, and there's a grim performance from Marvin Miller as
the suave villain's violent sidekick. It signs off with a terrific,
romantic death scene, and a great last line, 'Geronimo, Rip'. First Published In: Empire [issue unknown] Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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