Made in 1947, this quintessential film noir twists and turns its dark way through a typically Byzantine plot. Narrated primarily in flashbacks by the doomed hero, it's the tale of a private eye named Bailey (Robert Mitchum), who's hired by gangster Kirk Douglas to find his missus (Jane Greer), who's run off with $40,000 of Mob cash. Trailing her to Mexico, Bailey falls for this femme fatale, and is sucked into an ever more complex web of blackmail and double-crossings.
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