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...Dark Passage (Warner) builds up a remarkably long and effective delayed entrance for its star, Humphrey Bogart. During the first several reels, the camera-along with the audience-sees the world through the hero's eyes: rolling downhill in a barrel (he is a convict making a break); watching a cop's hand paw dangerously into his hideout in Lauren Bacall's auto (he is a convict getting a break); watching Miss Bacall register lovelight as she looks into the lens (a break cinemaddicts have had before...
...Marlowe has been impersonated in other films by Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Montgomery...
Miss Stanwyck, who does well enough with a tough, worldly kind of part, is baffled by the sleight of hand required for this one. Humphrey Bogart also appears uncomfortable. Violence and murder are old stuff to him, but madness and paintbrushes are not quite in his line. Little Miss Ann Carter manages to make a precocious child seem likable and attractive. Thanks to her, the picture is almost worth the trip...
Dead Reckoning (Columbia) would be quite a good thriller if it kept the edge and pace of its first hour or so. During that time ex-Paratrooper Humphrey Bogart hustles all over Gulf City, from morgue to Catholic church to cabaret, in his efforts to learn who rubbed out his comrade-at-arms (William Prince), and why. He becomes interested, particularly, in his late pal's hoarse sweetheart (Lizabeth Scott), in a suave nightclub proprietor (Morris Carnovsky) and in Carnovsky's fat strong-arm boy (Marvin Miller), who likes to torture his victims to soft music...
Chief consolations: Lee Tover's crisp camera work; Wallace Ford as a retired safe-buster; and the enormously proficient Mr. Bogart, who can just sit in a phone booth and make a long-distance call to St. Louis crackle with life and interest...