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Rating: Q=6, P=4 / Average OJ
Scale 1=3, Scale 2=3, Scale 3=2, Scale 4=2
Thriller, Suspense, Mystery
"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me."
This film takes its place in the library of classics because of the script. Each line is meaningful, there is no filler. And the lines are delivered with impeccable timing by two stars: Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. Even though the story and characters are not new--the volatile writer, the mysterious and beautiful woman, an unsolved murder--the way it is told seems fresh. For the time and even now. It has a feeling of a stage production, as many films of the 1950s do, but it is enhanced by beautiful film artistry, especially lighting and angles.
This film takes its place in the library of classics because of the script. Each line is meaningful, there is no filler. And the lines are delivered with impeccable timing by two stars: Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. Even though the story and characters are not new--the volatile writer, the mysterious and beautiful woman, an unsolved murder--the way it is told seems fresh. For the time and even now. It has a feeling of a stage production, as many films of the 1950s do, but it is enhanced by beautiful film artistry, especially lighting and angles.
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