Pros: Bogart in fine form. Odd-featured Lizabeth Scott quite striking. Chemistry between Leads. Cons:Script by Committee convoluted. Strange, improbable situations and dialogue.
By 1947, the year that Dead Reckoning was released, Humphrey Bogart had become a big deal on the Hollywood scene. The Maltese Falcon (1941) had made him a star, and Casablanca (1943) would make him a legend. In retrospect, his three ...
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I don’t often pick on film noir. In fact, I happen to love film noir, that genre of hard-boiled mysteries with its fast dames and tough dudes; but Dead Reckoning, the 1947 movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott, seems ripe for the...
Pros: great Noir with Bogart as a regular Joe Cons: Too bad Howard Hawks didn’t direct
There are more than a few nice parts in Dead Reckoning. As the opening flashback develops we are shown a great wide shot of the outside and interior of the Pennsylvania Train Station in New York before it was demolished. The whole tone of this 1947 ...
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