An outstanding film noir that is heavily praised in any top 100 list I have seen. It really is as good as they say and has some of the best quotes ever uttered in film noir ("Well Build My Gallows High, Baby"). Film noir has to have key ingredients and this movie ticked them all off. A rough but strangely appealing good guy who is caught up in some murder or illegal plot usually unintentionally, a lot of trapsing the streets after hours with amazing shadows lighting up the person's face, lots of smoking, a narrative (usually done by the main male star in the film) and of course a sultry and sexy femme fatale, someone who cannot be trusted, at any cost.
Robert Mitchum is amazingly good in this ( until now I had always imagined Bogart or Ladd were the best good guy leads) and Jane Greer is scorchingly beautiful as the dangerous woman who gets in his way. A superb example of what made Noir the popular genre it always has been.
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