Humphrey Bogart is at his best as a hardboiled sleuth in this '40s film noir classic. In one of his most exciting roles, the inimitable Bogie plays Rip Murdock, an ex-G.I. trying to find out who framed his pal Johnny for murder - and then rubbed him out. Tracing his war buddy's shadowy past leads Rip to Coral Chandler (Lizabeth Scott) who was once Johnny's sweetheart. Now shes a chanteuse in a nightclub run by suave gangster Martinelli (Morris Carnovsky). Rip gets a taste of the beautiful blonde's seductive charms and soon finds himself ensnared in a twisted web of deceit and danger. Is Coral an innocent thrush - or is she a predatory siren leading Bogie to the DEAD RECKONING ?
as the dvd blurb says.
Perhaps not one of Bogart's best - not another IN A LONELY PLACE or BIG SLEEP - but its filled with sharp witty dialogue and has all the noir trappings with lots of dark shadows, confessionals and voiceovers putting the murder plot in motion, as we see Rip (Bogie) looking at bodies in the morgue trying to find his lost pal - who was burnt to a crisp ....
Poet and song-writer Fran Landesman (1927-2011) did a marvellous poem about Bogie, I love these particular verses:
He will always be Bogie / and he'll never grow old.
She's a girl who's in trouble / all her nights are like years /
She wears dresses of satin / and a necklace of tears.
She was Ida or Ingrid / till along came Bacall /
But he'll always be Bogie / and he's the king of them all.
She was Ida or Ingrid / till along came Bacall /
But he'll always be Bogie / and he's the king of them all.
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