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A classic film noir starring the great Edmond O'Brien (DOA). A bitter, burned-out cop decides he's had enough of seeing the bad guys go free decides he's it's time for him to take a little slice of the pie himself. Of course that's not a terribly unique premise, but it's approached in the realistic adult way that Hollywood was only able to in the late '40s-early '50s.
Back when even slutty white blonde women in bars looked good.
If you've ever known real people who live on Earth you'll fit in here. There's not a lot of lowlifes driven by deeply complex philosophical motives that only an English major could comprehend. There isn't constant hints of a racial or misogynistic anti-queer context. They're ordinary people who want to get what they've earned from life, to upgrade their situation, to help each other out, to keep society from falling apart.
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Film noir is my jam
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Just after the war when they had guts to tell real stories and before the studios in the mid '50s got afraid of offending anyone. We've never had it that good since.
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