manages to get into plenty of the action. It plays as a bleak crime melodrama that is too complexly plotted for its own good ... There's some fun in watching the Bogart character romance the husky-voiced femme fatale character played by Lizabeth Scott, but not enough fun to overcome how unconvincing is the sinister plot."Time Out'' calls Scott "synthetic" but "alluring", and detects a "hint of self-parody" in Bogart's performance. It says that their "relationship never quite convinces, leading to a faintly embarrassing emotional climax." The film, according to the reviewer, "tries too hard to maintain its note of doomed noir romance," but is nevertheless "[h]ighly enjoyable". References External links Dead Reckoning information site and DVD review at DVD Beaver (includes images) 1947 films 1947 mystery films American black-and-white films American mystery films Columbia Pictures films 1940s English-language films Film noir Films directed by John Cromwell 1940s American films