BLACK ANGEL (1946)

Starring: Dan Duryea & June Vincent

Director: Roy William Neill

80 mins.

First-rate whodunit (by Conrad Woolrich) of Vincent trying to clear husband of charge that he murdered Duryea's wife. 

Imaginative film will have you glued to the screen all the way.

My Rating: ***

THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942)

Starring: Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake

Director: Frank Tuttle

80 mins.

Ladd came into his own as paid gunman seeking revenge on man who double-crossed him, with Lake as a fetching vis-a-vis. Script by W.R. Burnett and Albert Maltz, fom Graham Greene's novel A Gun Fo Sale.

Remade in 1957 as SHORT CUT TO HELL and for cable TV in 1991 with Robert Wagner.

My Rating: ***

DETOUR (1945)

Starring: Tom Neal & Ann Savage

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

69 mins.

Intriguing melodrama about hitchhiker Neal, who gets involved with femme fatale Savage, and murder. Ultracheap movie has deserved cult following.

My Rating: ***

MY MOVIES & MUSIC RATINGS

Ratings range from ****, for the best, down to *.

And for the really bad and worst, I use the citation BOMB.

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