A down on his luck screenwriter (Humphrey Bogart) invites a star struck hatcheck girl (Martha Stewart) to his apartment to tell him the story of a book he has been asked to adapt for the screen as he has no interest in reading the novel himself. When the girl is later found murdered, he becomes the primary suspect. Based on the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes and directed by Nicholas Ray (BIGGER THAN LIFE). An excellent film noir containing one of Bogart's very best performances. His screenwriter is a very disturbed individual whose demons cause him to act out in an antisocial and an often violent manner. While we don't know whether he is a killer until the movie's end, his behavior suggests that he could well be. Bogart's superlative performance doesn't try to make his character likeable or attempt to soften the psychological damage that exists in his psyche. With Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Jeff Donnell, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Hadda Brooks and Alix Talton.
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