| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Humphrey Bogart |
Captain Warren 'Rip' Murdock
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| Lizabeth Scott |
Coral 'Dusty' Chandler
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| Morris Carnovsky |
Martinelli
|
| Charles Cane |
Lieutenant Kincaid
|
| William Prince |
Sergeant Johnny Drake/John Joseph Preston
|
| Marvin Miller |
Krause
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| Wallace Ford |
McGee
|
| James Bell |
Father Logan the Jumping Padre
|
| George Chandler |
Louis Ord
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| Lillian Bronson |
Mrs. Putnam (scenes deleted)
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| Ruby Dandridge |
Hyacinth
|
| William Forrest |
Lt. Col. Simpson
|
| Elizabeth Scott |
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| Matthew 'Stymie' Beard |
Bellboy
|
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Thriller |
| Director |
John Cromwell |
| Producer |
Sidney Biddell |
| Writer |
Gerald Drayson Adams; Sidney Biddell |
| Studio |
Columbia Pictures |
|
| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
NR |
| Running Time |
1 hr 40 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
|
| Plot |
| The shadow of World War II falls over this stateside film noir thriller about a GI paratrooper (Humphrey Bogart) who trails his AWOL war buddy to a treacherous city populated by gamblers, goons, pug cops, and the smoky, suspicious Lizabeth Scott, a seductive femme who may be fatale. Bogie's tight lipped, war hardened intensity dominates the B roster of supporting actors (Morris Carnovsky as a finicky nightclub owner with a gambling sideline, Marvin Miller as his brutal baby-faced thug) and the plot echoes with elements of earlier Bogie classics The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon recast on a low budget. Scott is, for all her fog-voiced sultriness, no Lauren Bacall, but her mannered performance is appropriately ambiguous and the film's cynical edge, ruthless desperation, and tarnished view of small-time hoodlums with big dreams casts a darker shadow unique to Hollywood's postwar funk. --Sean Axmaker |
| Personal Details |
| My Rating |
|
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
1367 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
6/24/04 |
| Store |
Copy |
| Owner |
NF |
| Links |
IMDB
Amazon US
|
| Folder |
011 |
|
| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
1.33:1 |
| UPC |
043396064195 |
| Chapters |
|
| Release Date |
1/14/03 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Korean; Portuguese; Spanish |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
|
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Extra Features
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| Black & White Closed-captioned |
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