Bogie & Lizabeth Scott in '47 film noir "Dead Reckoning"

I like this one. Very atmospheric

Thanks OP! I'm looking for a new noir to watch.

I liked Scott in Too Late for Tears.

"Lizabeth Scott is a very languid femme fatale"

Languid? She always comes off as mildly retarded. I can not stand her.

She's the poor man's Lauren Bacall.

R4, it's funny how she almost has what Bacall had.

And then she doesn't.

Columbia tried to pair Bogie and Rita earlier in the comedy Once Upon a Time (1944).

I, too, love "Too. Late for Tears." Her absolute evil glee over someone mistakenly throwing a suitcase of money into her convertible and her determination not to turn it over to the cops is a delight.

Here's Lizabeth Scott as Coral Chandler, singing her hit single to Bogie's "Rip" without a microphone in a nightclub the size of a airplane hangar!

Dead Reckoning is on Tubi, BTW...

A flat-chested girl should never wear a low-cut dress.

Lizabeth was groomed to be a Bacall type. As usual, the copy is not nearly as good as the original.

SPOILER!!!

But the final few moments when she kicks the bucket and we see some parachute imagery is quite moving......

Liz didn't have as much "flavah" as Lauren

She's better than that Diana Dors woman.

Lizabeth Scott had lipstick lesbian appeal from the start, long before the public learned she was a dyke courtesy of Confidential magazine.

NOOO!

R5, even Bacall wasn't "Lauren Bacall." She was incredibly sexy when she was paired with Bogart; without him, she's not the same person. Her appeal evaporates.

That’s going too far, R17.

She looked and sounded like no one else in movies, and is interesting to watch in all her films from the ‘50s. She had a particular brand of sophistication that went against that decade’s clichés about housewives, home and hearth. She was the anti-June Allyson and was a wonderful presence for that reason alone.

R17 is nuts.

"Dead Reckoning" is one of my favorite film noir movies.

But not because of Bogart (nothing new about his character here) or Scott (again nothing new).

But I find that the different "take" on the supporting characters to be the most interesting thing about the movie.

In other noir films, a retired safe cracker would be as depicted as a grizzled bum, living in a seedy room in a seedy hotel with a neon sign blinking outside the window. A half empty bottle of booze on the dresser. NOT here.

In other noir films, the cop would be corrupt and violent. NOT here. In any of his repeated appearances in the movie. Starting with his first appearance (at the morgue), his showing up at the hotel room, and at Coral's apartment, ending with the final scene in the hospital.

The priest is different, too. Not the old, presumably "Irish" padre, but a military chaplain.

I like Bogart and Scott, but there really is nothing new about their characters here. But the supporting roles make this movie much, much more interesting.

Apparently, Rudy Colludy owns Lauren Bacall's Mercedes!

I wonder if Rudy rides around drinking High Point Coffee in Bacall's Mercedes?

Marvin Miller as Krause is particularly scary.

OP, bless your heart! The only film permitted to have that in the title is "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning." I've ordered the Church to purchase any & all copies of this somehow adulterated copycat, along with all IP rights. It'll be gone forever in a day or two. Thanks for the heads-up!

With Morris Carnovsky as Martinelli .

Always thought that Lizabeth was too simpering and stiff for the femme fatale roles she was given. And not nearly as beautiful as Lauren.