Kick-Back Friday: #175

By bmartin on July 15, 2011 6:17 PM |

Dark-City_1950.jpgDark City (1950): From Hal B. Wallis, a low-budget,* but respectable, noir effort, which serves as an apparent inspiration for some of David Mamet's craftier grifter stories. A young Charlton Heston leads a small group of gambling cons (Ed Begley, Jack Webb, and Harry Morgan*) into cheating a traveling mark out of a $5000 cashier's check. Ashamed, the mark commits suicide, and the mark's unstable brother seeks murderous revenge. With Lizabeth Scott as Heston's doormat of a girlfriend and Dean Jagger (White Christmas) as a pesky police captain.

* Lots of rear projection.

** Before Webb and Morgan teamed up for "Dragnet." Working against later type, Webb pulls off contemptible snarkiness.

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