Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning (1946) is an American film noir directed by John Cromwell you can watch online on iFILM. Returning war hero Captain Rip Murdock watches his Army buddy Johnny Drake bolt from a train platform the moment cameras appear — and then turns up dead days later. Rip heads south to find out why.

The trail runs to Gulf City, a sleepy port town Johnny fled two years earlier after a murder charge. Humphrey Bogart plays Rip as a man who has stopped expecting good news. He finds a dead body, a mobster's nightclub, and Coral Chandler — a memorably dangerous widow played by Lizabeth Scott — who is either the answer to everything or the reason he shouldn't have come looking at all.

Cromwell wraps the investigation in the specific fog of men back from the front: soldiers who survived one kind of violence just to walk into another. Watch Dead Reckoning (1946) online on iFILM.