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William Sackheim (original screenplay)
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9 October 1948 (USA)
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On the Screen...and Hot! THE TAPPED-WIRE STORY OF TODAY'S "SMART GIRLS"! more
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Linda Vickers gets mixed up with gambler Marty Fain. One of Fain's henchmen uses her car in a killing...
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A Paint-By-the-Numbers Noir
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(Credited cast) | Virginia Mayo | ... | Linda Vickers |
 | Bruce Bennett | ... | Marty Fain |
| Robert Hutton | ... | 'Doc' Vickers |
| Tom D'Andrea | ... | Sparky Lynch |
| Richard Rober | ... | Lt. McReady |
| Helen Westcott | ... | Toni Peters |
| Richard Benedict | ... | Cliff Saunders |
| Ben Welden | ... | Nelson Clark |
| Richard Walsh | ... | Johnny Warjak |
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81 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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The Stars Will Remember (So Will I)
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This isn't bad but it has a false ring. Virginia Mayo is OK. At the start we hear about her being from a high society family with no money left to back that up. This gets lost.
She gets involved in a gambling house raid. The proprietor kind of likes her and also sees her as someone he could use. Enter her brother, the honest "Doc," just out of medical school. He sets her straight about the bad guys but they kill him.
The settings are believable -- clubs, apartments, streets. But it has no sense of reality. It's very formulaic.
The lower budget studios like PRC and Republic -- where have those all gone? They used to appear on local TV regularly -- did noir well. And surprisingly, MGM did it very well too.
Warner Bothers, which released this, had some very good ones but they were of a distinct kind. They were about detectives often, though "Nora Prentice" has the same leading man and is head and shoulders above this.
In sum, it moves along but it doesn't really work.