Tom Conway stumbles out of nowhere into Ann Rutherford's taxicab. He can't remember who he is.
He should have taken a look at his previous movie, one of the Falcon series, in which his also teams up with a taxi-driving gal, as well as several of the cast, including Richard Lane. The director is Anthony Mann, borrowed from Republic, and this remake of 1936's TWO IN THE DARK is a noir. Sort of. There's an awful lot of goofy humor, from Lane and Miss Rutherford's landlady. Sarah Edwards. At RKO, which was arguably the most noir-prone of the studios, this one matched Eddie Muller's definition of the genre as an attitude, starting with a lush musical introduction in a minor key, followed by Conway in silhouette staggering out of an alley to clutch at a lamp post in the fog, and wiping the blood from his temple.
After that it settles down, alternating comedy and suspense, just as you might expect from a movie based on a Gelett Burgess story. It's not a great movie, but it fills up sixty-eight minutes interestingly enough, and probably made a decent profit for the studio. With Jane Greer in her credited debut.
He should have taken a look at his previous movie, one of the Falcon series, in which his also teams up with a taxi-driving gal, as well as several of the cast, including Richard Lane. The director is Anthony Mann, borrowed from Republic, and this remake of 1936's TWO IN THE DARK is a noir. Sort of. There's an awful lot of goofy humor, from Lane and Miss Rutherford's landlady. Sarah Edwards. At RKO, which was arguably the most noir-prone of the studios, this one matched Eddie Muller's definition of the genre as an attitude, starting with a lush musical introduction in a minor key, followed by Conway in silhouette staggering out of an alley to clutch at a lamp post in the fog, and wiping the blood from his temple.
After that it settles down, alternating comedy and suspense, just as you might expect from a movie based on a Gelett Burgess story. It's not a great movie, but it fills up sixty-eight minutes interestingly enough, and probably made a decent profit for the studio. With Jane Greer in her credited debut.