Movie: Dead Reckoning (1947)

• Director: John Cromwell
• Release Date: 16 January 1947 (USA)
• Writers: Oliver H.P. Garrett (screenplay) & Steve Fisher (screenplay) …  
• Run Time: 100 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Film-Noir , Mystery , Thriller  

Tagline: He Doesn't Trust Anyone . . . especially Women !  

Trivia: In the train scene, after they discover that Drake is to receive the Medal of Honor, Murdock quips that maybe the president will let Drake “sit on top of his piano”. This is a reference to a then-scandalous photo of Harry Truman playing piano with a leggy blonde on top that was taken at the National Press Club in 1945. The blonde was Lauren Bacall.
 

Goofs: Continuity: Inside the hotel room, after the waiter goes out carrying the folding table, Murdock takes the cigarette from his mouth with his left hand. The next shot shows him holding the cigarette with his right hand.
 

“Rip Murdock and Johnny Darke are en route to Washington when Johnny disappears and then turns up dead. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out what he can. He falls in love with Coral whose husband Johnny is supposed to have killed. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>”