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
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Charles Cane |
Lieutenant Kincaid
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William Prince |
Sergeant Johnny Drake/John Joseph Preston
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Marvin Miller |
Krause
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Wallace Ford |
McGee
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James Bell |
Father Logan the Jumping Padre
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George Chandler |
Louis Ord
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Lillian Bronson |
Mrs. Putnam (scenes deleted)
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Ruby Dandridge |
Hyacinth
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William Forrest |
Lt. Col. Simpson
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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 |
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Language |
English |
Audience Rating |
NR |
Running Time |
1 hr 40 mins |
Country |
USA |
Color |
Color |
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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 |
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Seen It |
No |
Index |
1367 |
Collection Status |
In Collection |
Purchase Date |
6/24/04 |
Store |
Copy |
Owner |
NF |
Links |
IMDB
Amazon US
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Folder |
011 |
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Product Details |
Format |
DVD |
Region |
Region 1 |
Screen Ratio |
1.33:1 |
UPC |
043396064195 |
Chapters |
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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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