Appointment With Danger

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James E A memorable film about a postal inspector. It is an excellent procedural story that holds your interested through out. Jack Webb was a stand out in this Alan Ladd film. A 4 star firm for sure. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/28/24 Full Review Steve D It is hard to care about any of it. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Run-of-the-mill noir that sees Alan Ladd as a postal inspector (a.k.a cop) who is brought in to solve a colleague's murder but ends up stumbling onto a gang planning a heist (targeting a mail truck, of course). Ladd plays a tough guy who no one likes but his dealings with the key witness, a nun (Phyllis Calvert), soften him up a bit. Nevertheless, he's hard as nails when it comes to playing the dirty cop in order to get in thick with the gang led by Paul Stewart. Jack Webb and Harry Morgan (later of Dragnet) are on hand as a couple of not-so-bright hoodlums. The cinematography by John F. Seitz (who also shot Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd, and The Lost Weekend) is better-than-average with some stark night shooting. Certainly not the place to start with film noir, but not bad. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Watchable but forgettable film Noir starring Alan Ladd. It's ok, but it's a bit paint by numbers, and also difficult to understand the language which is very gangster and sometimes muffled Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member "You've been chasing hoodlums for so long you don't know how to treat ordinary people. Warm up, will ya!?" "Sure, I'll fall in love for ya." "I don't think you could, because you don't know what a love affair is." "It's what goes on between a man and a .45 pistol that won't jam." "Let me tell you about you, Al. That badge and a few law books have turned you into a nut. You don't like anybody, you don't believe anybody, you don't trust anybody, you think everybody has a pitch." "Everybody has. You and I and that guy back there. We're all working for ourselves--a better job, a little more dough, a round of applause. One way or another everybody you meet is a pitch artist." A stiff/repressed/chaste (with the female lead an annoying nun rather than a femme fatale), midwestern film noir/police procedural/heist film, about the post office. It wants to appear to straddle good and evil, but there's no doubt it's on the side of "good". Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Appointment with Danger - Alan Ladd's last encounter with his beloved noir genre - is an erratic hit-and-miss showcase, which strikes as a picture both fairly suspenseful and too underdeveloped in its narrative structure. Though it has its pleasurable moments of ravishing intensity, Appointment with Danger is a rather forgettable flick that creates a disadvantage out of its overly routine approach to the subject. The film focuses on Al Goddard (Alan Ladd), a special investigator for the US post office, who is called in to investigate a mysterious murder of his fellow co-worker. What starts off as a rather superficial intrigue with a lovely nun in the middle of the whole action, soon turns into a deadly intrigue concerning a group of greedy, handy thugs and a huge sum of money. In order to reveal their plan, Goddard poses as a witty crook who also wants to put his hands on the cash. While trying to infiltrate the gang and discover what the scheme is about, he communicates with the police and takes care of the nun, who is now in grave danger, as she's the only suspect in the aforementioned murder case. During the last, most decisive moments of the intrigue something goes wrong, and Goddard is forced to rely only on his own cunning. The movie concludes with an intense and climatic shootout in a quiet industrial district. The most fascinating thing about this film is its cast. Apart from Alan Ladd as the protagonist, Lewis Allen cast Jack Webb and Harry Morgan as the ruthless murderers. The future stars of the TV series Dragnet bring a lot of joy to the cinephile's heart with their dark and nasty portrayals of two guileful schemers. Overal, Appointment with Danger might not be film noir finest example, yet it still aspires to be a reasonably thrilling picture, which makes a good use of its stellar cast and moody cinematography. Though unsuccessful, it will please all the genre fans. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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