Dead Reckoning (1947 film)
Dead Reckoning is a 1947 American film noir directed by John Cromwell and starring Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, and William Prince. It was written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. Garrett, based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams and Sidney Biddell, adapted by Allen Rivkin. Its plot follows a war hero, Warren Murdock (Bogart) who begins investigating the death of his friend and fellow soldier, Johnny Drake (Prince). The investigation leads Murdock to his friend's mistress, a mysterious woman whose husband Drake was accused of murdering.
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Lizabeth Scott and Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning (1947)
Humphrey DeForest Bogart, colloquially nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.
Bogart in 1940
Plaque commemorating Bogart's birthplace, 245 W. 103rd St., New York City
Maud Humphrey in the 1897 book American Women
Enlisting at 18 in the U.S. Navy in 1918, Bogart was recorded as a model sailor.