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Dead Reckoning is a 1947 [i] American film noir directed by John Cromwell and starring Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, and William Prince.It was written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. Garrett, based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams and Sidney Biddell, adapted by Allen Rivkin. [1]
After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, she emerged in such films as The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Dead Reckoning (1947), Desert Fury (1947), and Too Late for Tears (1949). Of her 22 films, she was the leading lady in all but three. In addition to stage ...
In Dead Reckoning (1947), Bogart portrays a hardened WWII veteran who engages in a deadly pursuit to locate the murderer of a comrade-in-arms. Lizabeth Scott serves as the noir femme-fatale. [117] The often incoherent narrative reflects Cromwell's struggle to make sense of the disconcerting script. Cromwell recalled: We had no story.
With 'Monsieur Spade' and 'Sugar,' elements of the hard-boiled detective story are turning up with updated twists
His films include Dead Reckoning (1947) starring Humphrey Bogart, The Big Steal (1949), Armored Car Robbery (1950), His Kind of Woman (1951, uncredited), The Black Sleep (1956), and Kissin' Cousins (1964), starring Elvis Presley, for which he received a WGA award nomination.
Dead Reckoning, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott; Deep Valley, directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Ida Lupino; Desert Fury, starring John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott; Desperate, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Steve Brodie and Raymond Burr; Devil in the Flesh (Diable au corps) –
Dead Reckoning: 1947 John Cromwell: Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock: Columbia Pictures [95] The Two Mrs. Carrolls: Peter Godfrey: Geoffrey Carroll: Warner Bros. [96] Dark Passage: Delmer Daves: Vincent Parry [97] Always Together: Frederick de Cordova: Himself [98] The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: 1948 John Huston Fred C. Dobbs [99] Key Largo: Frank ...
He occasionally composed original soundtracks for better productions, like A Thousand and One Nights (1945) or Dead Reckoning (1946). Skiles served as musical director for Columbia's mega-hit Gilda (1946), starring Rita Hayworth in her most famous role.