Dead Reckoning (film)

Dead Reckoning is a 1947 Columbia Pictures film noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott and featuring Morris Carnovsky. The picture was directed by John Cromwell and written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. Garrett based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams and Sidney Biddell.

Just after World War II, paratroopers and close friends Captain Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake William Prince are mysteriously ordered to travel from Paris to Washington, D.C. When Drake learns that he is to be awarded the Medal of Honor and Murdock the Distinguished Service Cross, he disappears before newspaper photographers can take his picture. Murdock goes AWOL, follows the clues and tracks his friend to Gulf City in the southern United States, where he learns Drake is dead his burned corpse is recovered from a car crash.Murdock finds out that Drake joined the Army under an assumed name to avoid a murder charge. He was accused of killing a rich old man named Chandler because he was in love with his beautiful young wife Coral Lizabeth Scott. Murdock goes to a nightclub to question Louis Ord George Chandler, a witness in the murder trial. Ord reveals that Drake had given him a letter for Murdock. Murdock also meets Coral and Martinelli Morris Carnovsky, the club owner, there. Seeing Coral losing heavily at roulette, Murdock not only recoups her losses at craps, he wins her 16,000. For some reason, however, she is uncomfortable with the situation. When they go to collect the money in Martinellis private office, Murdock accepts a drink it is drugged. When he wakes up the next morning, he finds Ords dead body planted in his hotel room. He manages to hide the corpse before police Lieutenant Kincaid Charles Cane, responding to an anonymous tip, shows up to search his room. ........

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