Review of Appointment with Danger (1950) by Alex B — 31 May 2014
"You've been chasing hoodlums for so long you don't know how to treat ordinary people. Warm up, will ya!?" "Sure, I'll fall in love for ya." "I don't think you could, because you don't know what a love affair is.
" "It's what goes on between a man and a .45 pistol that won't jam." "Let me tell you about you, Al. That badge and a few law books have turned you into a nut. You don't like anybody, you don't believe anybody, you don't trust anybody, you think everybody has a pitch.
" "Everybody has. You and I and that guy back there. We're all working for ourselves--a better job, a little more dough, a round of applause. One way or another everybody you meet is a pitch artist.
" A stiff/repressed/chaste (with the female lead an annoying nun rather than a femme fatale), midwestern film noir/police procedural/heist film, about the post office. It wants to appear to straddle good and evil, but there's no doubt it's on the side of "good".
This review of Appointment with Danger (1950) was written by Alex B on 31 May 2014.
Appointment with Danger has generally received mixed reviews.
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