Dead Reckoning
by John Cromwell
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Actor: Charles Cane, Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, William PrinceDirector: John Cromwell
Brand: BOGART,HUMPHREY
Cinematographer: Leo Tover
Producer: Sidney Biddell
Writer: Sidney Biddell
Writer: Allen Rivkin
Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams
Writer: Oliver H.P. Garrett
Writer: Steve Fisher
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Published)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Movie Reviews of Dead Reckoning
Movie Review: Film Noir and Humphry Bogart, a match
Summary: 4 Stars
The DVD transfer is fair to good. There are noticeable scratches but not bad enough to disturb the viewer. There is a little too much grain in the grey areas but, once again, the film will be good enough to watch.
How do you make a fairly standardized noir better, you cast Humphrey Bogart in the lead. Adding 50's femme fatale, Lizabeth Scott doesn't hurt either.
Capt. "Rip Murdock" (Bogie) is taking one of his men, Johnny Drake (William Prince) to receive the Medal of Honor when the man jumps the train and runs off. Rip vows to find the answers to his soldier's disappearance.
After discovering that the Drake was involved in a sordid murder just before he enlisted, Rip heads into the dark underworld to get some answers. There he meats the local underlord, Martinelli (Morris Carvnosky) a couple of thugs and signer Dusty Chandler (Liz Scott) who was the wife of the original murder victim. After Rip finds Drake's charred body in the morgue, Rip know voes to get all the answers. From there he is caught in a quicksand of gangsters, molls, murders and betrayal. Ordinarily, the film would get 3 stars since many of the plot motivations or scenes are things we've seen elsewhere. But the presence of Humphrey Bogart raises this one to 4 starts. I would say this is a keeper.
Recommended for: film noir fans, Humphrey Bogart fans, Lizabeth Scott fans and mystery fans. Not for young children
Summary of Dead Reckoning
Bogart stars as a GI who becomes involved with his murdered buddy's girlfriend when he sets out to prove his friend's innocence in a frame-up.Genre: Mystery
Rating: UN
Release Date: 14-JAN-2003
Media Type: DVD
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
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