1947 · noir · femme-fatale · veteran
Dead Reckoning
Directed by John Cromwell1h 40m1947
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.
Our read: Dead Reckoning (1947) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded noir · femme-fatale · veteran entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured noir / femme-fatale, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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- intense
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