decadent world of carnival is the more compelling watch. That’s mainly down to an against-type Tyrone Power, who charges the film not just with clammy desperation, but just enough humanity to make you care when it all goes hideously south, and Helen Walker as the duplicitous partner-in-cr...
The most hard-boiled thing on YouTube that isn’t just a video of someone boiling eggs, Rudolph Maté’s tough ‘40s flick (‘Dead on Arrival’) has everything you’d want in a noir: a twisty plot, femme fatales, blokes in suits spitting tough-guy dialogue at each other, unimpressed ...