Deadline at Dawn (1946) - Pure distilled noir from the peak period. This has sneaked under the radar and sure, it's not a perfect film the way Double Indemnity, The Killers or Out of the Past are. In a way though, it's the hidden pleasures that are sometimes the sweetest. This has the three main ingredients - wonderful shadowy cinematography, a cast of bizarre minor characters and a twisty script glittering with one liners. Plot is your basic wrong man trying to prove his innocence but it's all in the style and the mood. A great find.
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