In a remote region of post-independence India, the love of a blind British woman pricks the conscience of an arms dealer.

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Ladd is as hardboiled as ever in this minor film noir classic. He is a tough reporter in Chicago (though he is never shown working at a typewriter) who first appears at a run-down south side rooming house, attempting to talk a runaway girl into returning home. In the next room he finds the emaciated but beautiful body of a girl who has died of tuberculosis (Reed). Before the police arrive Ladd pockets her address book and then systematically begins to look up the various venal people in her life who tell her story in flashbacks. There is Kroeger, a vicious gangster; Muir, a nervous banker; Freeman, an invalid writer; Lees, an addled boxer; Havoc, a call girl; Hervey, a gangster’s moll; and, in a startling performance, Strudwick, as a melancholy mobster. Each tells a tale about Reed as Ladd reconstructs her life, encountering several murders and blackmail victims along the way, finally shooting it out with culprit Kroeger, killing him and being wounded himself. Ladd is so enraptured with the dead girl (not unlike Dana Andrews in LAURA) that he leaves his hospital bed to attend her funeral, where he burns her address book to protect her memory, a gallant beau geste. Seeing this, Kennedy, portraying the dead girl’s brother, tells Ladd that he knew her best of all. Based on a roughhouse 1933 novel, it’s a sad, sometimes morose film, but it’s told with great pace and power, most of it steel gray, full of soot and grime and struggle, like Chicago itself, where the exterior shots were done. Ladd is superb as the callous reporter with a soft heart for Reed’s memory. (This was Ladd and Reed’s second film together after BEYOND GLORY, although they do not appear in any scene as a twosome.) CHICAGO DEADLINE is typical of the hard-hitting, well-made crime films that were hallmarks of the late 1940s, and Ladd is the epitome of the shadowy hero, the man from the other side of the tracks who didn’t give a damn … except that he did. (Remade as “Fame Is the Name of the Game” for TV.)

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During India’s first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve’s love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.

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Synopsis:
When ex-cop Steve Rollins is released from San Quentin after five years, his only thoughts are of revenge on the men who framed him for manslaughter. Back in San Francisco, his quest for the truth brings him up against ruthless waterfront gang boss Victor Amato.

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Synopsis:
The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens’ Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) is impressed by the way Shane handles himself when facing down the hostile minions of land baron Emile Meyer, though he has trouble placing his complete trust in the stranger, as his Marion (Jean Arthur) is attracted to Shane in spite of herself, and his son Joey (Brandon De Wilde) flat-out idolizes Shane. When Meyer is unable to drive off the homesteaders by sheer brute strength, he engages the services of black-clad, wholly evil hired gun Jack Wilson (Jack Palance)…

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Dennis Schwartz writes:
John Farrow’s Calcutta is a fast-paced old-fashioned adventure yarn, shot entirely in Paramount’s backlot. Seton Miller does the screenplay. It’s an entertaining potboiler, though a minor work … Ladd gives an icy action-hero performance as someone who revels in his disdain for women as untrustworthy companions. By Ladd’s politically incorrect moves, he takes on the characteristics of the film noir protagonist–which gives this programmer its energy. Ladd quotes an ancient Hindu saying ‘Man who trust woman walk on duckweed over pond,’ which tells us all we want to know about how he has stayed alive for so long while in the company of dangerous women, ones like Virginia, while Bill so easily succumbed to the beauty of the femme fatale

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This is a solid remake of the 1935 film of the same name about big-city political corruption, and it starred Edward Arnold as the corrupt political boss and George Raft as his loyal lieutenant. Stuart Heisler directs this film noir in a workmanlike manner (though, the changed hard-edged ending from the novel is a copout). It is similar themed but less effective than The Maltese Falcon, which was also based on a Dashiell Hammet novel. The Glass Key was supposedly the inspiration for Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. The title refers to the political boss backing a candidate based on the expectation of being rewarded with the key to the governor’s house if all goes according to plan, but is breakable if there’s a betrayal. For Paramount this was a big box-office film because of the star team of Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, who sparkled as lovers with opposite personalities.

Paul Madvig (Brian Donlevy) is the hard-hitting, good-natured, semi-corrupt political boss from the wrong side of the tracks, whose loyal chief aide is his childhood pal Ed Beaumont (Alan Ladd). The corrupt politician surprises his underworld cronies by backing society millionaire “reform” candidate Senator Ralph Henry for governor. He does so because he has a crush on the senator’s feisty and beautiful daughter Janet Henry (Veronica Lake). Ed doesn’t trust Henry to keep his word and be loyal after the election, and thinks his daughter is using her engagement to the love-sick pup, she feels superior to, in order to get her pop elected and then both of them will dump him. There’s also the concern that the reform platform promises to clean up the gambling and vice in the city, and that will make dangerous enemies of Paul’s old supporters like the small-time city racketeer Nick Varna.

When Janet’s wastrel brother Ted is killed, it’s suspected that Paul killed him because he was seeing his 18-year-old sister Opal (Bonita Granville) over his objections. The twisty plot has Paul’s vulnerable sister and conniving girlfriend working against him to get him indicted for the murder, which he denies he did. The girlfriend writes anonymous letters to the spineless DA accusing him of the crime, while the sister gives an exclusive to newspaper publisher Clyde Matthews accusing her brother of murder (Matthews is under pressure to support Henry’s rival because Varna owns the mortgage to the newspaper and since he’s broke has no choice but to follow the gangster’s orders).

The film’s most memorable scene has Varna goon Jeff (William Bendix) applying a lengthy sado-masochistic beating on the stoical Ed while saying things like “He’s a tough baby, he likes this” and then gleefully asking his “little rubber ball” to bounce back for more.

Ladd plays an amoral character who only remains loyal to his boss (he even dismisses the sexual advances from the boss’ fiancee) and is willing to do anything to save him from a murder charge because he’s just a “square” guy. But, at the same time, Ladd encourages the publisher’s wife to come on to him in front of her hubby and when the hubby commits suicide over this, he brazenly goes up to his room and steals the will the publisher wrote before the suicide. Ladd will not stop a drunken and enraged Bendix from slowly strangling to death Varna over a falling out about blabbing too much, and he is willing to let Lake, whom he loves, get arrested for a crime she didn’t do to smoke out the real killer.

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