Dead Reckoning

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Steve D Not a lot of surprises but entertaining. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/15/24 Full Review Paul G This is a proper noir film with some great hardboiled one-liners from Humphrey Bogart. The story is reasonably okay. Can Humphrey trust the femme fatal? what happened to his friend? It keeps you watching until the end. Probably the weakest element is Lizbeth Scott who seems rather wooden throughout. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/01/23 Full Review Audience Member This 1947 film gives us a chance to see one of the iconic actors of the 20th century, Morris Carnovsky, as Martinelli, ruthless gambling tycoon whose sadistic bodyguard, Krause, is played by Marvin Miller, instantly recognizable a decade later as Michael Anthony, loyal assistant to John Beresford Tipton in the classic TV series The Millionaire. Overall, the film is a solid Bogart noir, and who's gonna argue with that? Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review paul d John Cromwell's Dead Reckoning has some good ingredients. The plot is very good and the Gulf city location is a welcome hint of exotic life in an era when all the crime dramas were set in NY, LA or Chicago. Bogart is in good form and seems to be enjoying himself. Despite all this, the film ends up to be plodding and a bit boring. While Lizabeth Scott is sultry and mysterious, she somehow plays her role opaquely, in reserve, for most of the film. And some scenes go on for too long, with weak transitions. In the hands of a director with some artistic flair, and with a bit of editing to the story, this might have been a very, very good film. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Luca D Critics and audience both can't tell a good Bogart performance from a bad one. They will rate Key Largo a must see, though Bogart barely makes a peep the entire film. Meanwhile a movie like this has him in an staple film noir mysterious narrator type role, where his mysterious attitude bounces back and forth with Scott's damsel with a dark secret attitude. Though the plot is where the movie lacks, the two main characters chemistry makes up for most of it. I enjoyed this movie a great deal and think it is critically underated. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/02/21 Full Review william d Decent enough noir from the 40s despite a story that drags a bit and is weighed down by the mediocre acting of Lizabeth Scott. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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