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The Strand
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Classic Film Noir, James Stewart is Jim McNeal, a cynical Chicago newspaperman who responds to an advert offering $500 for information on who killed a policeman in a speakeasy back in 1932.
The ad, it turns out, was placed by an elderly Polish woman whose son (Richard Conte), she claims, was unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to 99 years for the murder. McNeal (Stewart) doesn’t expect to find much when he investigates a decade-old cop-killing, and certainly isn’t prepared for the utter sincerity of the man in jail for the crime, or the stonewall job he gets from the authorities.
The story unfolds in step-by-step procedural detail. Outstanding location shooting and Stewart’s driven performance turn a sober film into a vibrant and exciting one with the investigation outcome open to question until the end.
Dir. Henry Hathaway - 1948 – USA - 111 mins - Cert PG - British Film Institute
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