DEAD RECKONING Hits Dead On

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I’d been waiting all year for this festival and couldn’t wait to see what programmer Fast Eddie Muller would dig up this time around. I wasn’t disappointed. The opening night of NOIR CITY packed ‘em in with two criminally under-seen films noirs: DESERT FURY and DEAD RECKONING. I missed the first but snatched up the second like a sweaty safecracker hauling in loot from a double-door. Humphrey Bogart (as a World War II Vet looking for his vanished army buddy) and Lizbeth Scott (as a Torch Singer once involved with the friend) do a wonderful dance of death from the moment they meet. Bogey snarls and sniggers accusations; Lizbeth purrs and demurs. Amazing how, sixty-plus years after this was film was shot, the audience still chortled at Bogey’s choicest lines, like “Maybe she was all right and maybe Christmas comes in July. But I wasn’t buying it.” http://www.filmradar.com/articles/item/dead_reckoning_hits_dead_on/