☆ ☆ ☆
Appointment
with Danger (1950) – L. Allen
Run-of-the-mill noir that sees Alan Ladd
as a postal inspector (a.k.a cop) who is brought in to solve a colleague’s
murder but ends up stumbling onto a gang planning a heist (targeting a mail
truck, of course). Ladd plays a tough
guy who no one likes but his dealings with the key witness, a nun (Phyllis
Calvert), soften him up a bit.
Nevertheless, he’s hard as nails when it comes to playing the dirty cop
in order to get in thick with the gang led by Paul Stewart. Jack Webb and Harry Morgan (later of Dragnet)
are on hand as a couple of not-so-bright hoodlums. The cinematography by John F. Seitz (who also
shot Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd, and The Lost Weekend) is
better-than-average with some stark night shooting. Certainly not the place to start with film
noir, but not bad.
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