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A ★★★½ review of Dead Reckoning (1946)
Coral Chandler: "I understand. What you're saying is: women are made to be loved." Rip Murdock: "Is THAT what I'm saying?" Coral Chandler: "Yes, it's a confession. A woman may drive you out of your mind, but you wouldn't trust her, and because you couldn't put her in your pocket, you get all mixed up..." John Cromwell's post-war film noir DEAD RECKONING from Indicator's Humphrey Bogart Columbia Noir #5 box set, immediately recalls Bogie's turn as Sam Spade in THE MALTESE FALCON. The set-up is different...but the echoes are unmistakable. Columbia contracted Bogart clearly buying the persona that made him
