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Dead Reckoning is a 1947 Columbia motion picture starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott, directed by John Cromwell. This film noir drama/mystery was filmed in black-and-white.

Returning home from World War II, ex-paratroopers Captain Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake are to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and Medal of Honor respectively. While on their way to Washington, Drake disappears. Murdock follows the clues and tracks his friend to Gulf City, where he learns Drake is dead–burned to death in a car accident.

While in town, Murdock finds out that Drake joined the Army under an assumed name to avoid a murder charge. He was accused of killing a rich old man named Chandler, because he was in love with his wife, Coral.

During the investigation of his friend's mysterious past, a dead body is planted in Murdock’s hotel room. Now the police are after him. He teams up with the man’s widow, Coral, to help straighten out the many twists and turns in the story.

Main cast

Humphrey Bogart
as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock
Lizabeth Scott
as Coral "Dusty" Chandler
Morris Carnovsky
as Martinelli
Charles Cane as Lt. Kincaid
William Prince
as Sgt. Johnny Drake/John Joseph Preston
Marvin Miller
as Krause
Wallace Ford
as McGee

The role of Coral Chandler was originally intended for Rita Hayworth, but she had already been cast by her husband, Orson Welles, for The Lady from Shanghai
released the same year.

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