Smart Girls Don't Talk

1948
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1h 21m

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Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton, and Virginia Mayo in Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA socialite in financial trouble gets involved with a nightclub and gambling club owner, whose hoodlums are not afraid to kill, only to regret it and finally help a police lieutenant incrimi... Tout lireA socialite in financial trouble gets involved with a nightclub and gambling club owner, whose hoodlums are not afraid to kill, only to regret it and finally help a police lieutenant incriminate him and his gunman.A socialite in financial trouble gets involved with a nightclub and gambling club owner, whose hoodlums are not afraid to kill, only to regret it and finally help a police lieutenant incriminate him and his gunman.

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Rôles principaux35

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Virginia Mayo

Linda Vickers

Bruce Bennett

Marty Fain

Robert Hutton

'Doc' Vickers

Tom D'Andrea

Sparky Lynch

Richard Rober

Police Lt. McReady

Helen Westcott

Toni Peters

Richard Benedict

Cliff Saunders

Phyllis Coates

Cigarette Girl
(uncredited)

Bud Cokes

Gunman
(uncredited)

Eddie Foster

Gunman
(uncredited)

Kenneth Gibson

Nightclub Patron
(uncredited)

Joe Gilbert

Johnny
(uncredited)

Creighton Hale

Apartment House Clerk
(uncredited)

Edna Harris

Miss Frey
(uncredited)

Harry Hayden

Ballistics Expert
(uncredited)

George Hoagland

Gunman
(uncredited)

Charles Jordan

Detective
(uncredited)

Fred Kelsey

Bartender at Roadhouse
(uncredited)

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Anecdotes
The huge black car Marty drives Linda to her apartment in is a 1938 Cadillac Series 90 V-16 Fleetwood Town Car. An example in excellent condition in 2024 could be worth well over $100,000. The next day he drives to her place in a 1946 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet; only 201 of those cars were made.

Gaffes
Whe Linda takes Marty's gun in for ballistics testing - to see if it was the one that killed her brother - the expert says it doesn't match. ("They're not even close.") But looking through the comparison microscope, it's apparent that if the right image is moved up slightly, all the markings from the lands and grooves would match perfectly. The expert then switches the bullet to the one that killed Clark, and the same images as before are used; only this time, the expert moves the images and everything does align.

Bandes originales
The Very Thought of You
(uncredited)
Music by Ray Noble
[Played during the opening credits and occasionally in the score]

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7/10

A Paint-By-the-Numbers Noir

This isn't bad but it has a false ring. Virginia Mayo is OK. At the start we hear about her being from a high society family with no money left to back that up. This gets lost.

She gets involved in a gambling house raid. The proprietor kind of likes her and also sees her as someone he could use. Enter her brother, the honest "Doc," just out of medical school. He sets her straight about the bad guys but they kill him.

The settings are believable -- clubs, apartments, streets. But it has no sense of reality. It's very formulaic.

The lower budget studios like PRC and Republic -- where have those all gone? They used to appear on local TV regularly -- did noir well. And surprisingly, MGM did it very well too.

Warner Bothers, which released this, had some very good ones but they were of a distinct kind. They were about detectives often, though "Nora Prentice" has the same leading man and is head and shoulders above this.

In sum, it moves along but it doesn't really work.