RATING: | 80% |
FORMAT: | DVD |
Cleverly-plotted, well-written and brilliantly-directed character-driven exercise in film noir that features flashbacks-within-flashbacks without confusing the audience.
The femme fatale here is the delicious Ava GARDNER, who looks as edible in casual clothes as she does in more formal evening wear. Inevitably, two men fight over her undeniable charms and find there is no honor among the gang of thieves with which she has become mixed - they double-cross each other.
As always, money and friendship are oil and water. Moreover, it is the details that you cannot plan for or possibly foresee that can so easily bring you down. Yet, there is a twist in this tale with a surprise ending that the double-cross may have been faked.
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