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5/10
a noir without moodiness
26 September 2024
Eddie Muller, in his Noir Alley intro, opined that the film's location shooting in Havana "distracts" from its overall quality. My response would be, "And that quality is what, exactly?" I mean, even Eddie admits that this Joseph H. Lewis offering "doesn't amount to much" because of a "derivative" screenplay. I would add to that the fact that the John Hodiak/Hedy Lamarr pairing has all the sexual chemistry of Mr. And Mrs. Louis B Mayer about to retire for the evening as well as the fact that, while Lamarr in real life had a high IQ, on screen she is strictly of average ability. So, yeah, let's have a travelogue. At least there's something interesting to watch. C plus.
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