Top billed cast

1. 

   Humphrey Bogart

   Dixon Steele

2. 

   Gloria Grahame

   Laurel Gray

3. 

   Frank Lovejoy

   Brub Nicolai

4. 

   Carl Benton Reid

   Capt. Lochner

5. 

   Art Smith

   Mel Lippman

6. 

   Jeff Donnell

   Sylvia Nicolai

7. 

   Martha Stewart

   Mildred Atkinson

8. 

   Robert Warwick

   Charlie Waterman

9. 

   Morris Ankrum

   Lloyd Barnes

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2020-02-17

Clinically excellent noir drama.

Plot Summary - First Paragraph

Screenwriter Dixon Steele is very talented, he also drinks too much and is prone to outbreaks of shocking violence. Thus the studios are reluctant to hire him, but through sheer determination, his agent manages to get him a coveted writing assignment to adapt a popular novel. The main players in the proposed picture meet up at a restaurant to talk things out, but with Dixon being Dixon it all goes wrong and violence curtails the evening. Though not really keen to read the novel he is to adapt, Dixon accepts an invitation fr...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$1,400,000.00

Keywords

• beach
• screenwriter
• assault
• film noir
• murder
• hollywood
• black and white
• fear
• agent
• murder investigation
• reckless driving
• murder suspect
• moody
• possessive man
• disenchantment
• insecure woman
• volatility