1h 36min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music | 11 January 1947
Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038721/
Two of my favorites are sung by IL (dubbed): the title song, and Why Was I Born. The dubber matches IL's speaking voice and phrasing well, which does not make for great singing.
Instead of a femme fatale, we have an homme fatale: RA. Very unsavory character.
I like the fact that IL is a fixer. She bails guys out of jail, encourages them to get work, encourages her sister to see her PTSD husband, informs a neighbor that his wife is stepping out on him. She slaps the gun out of a guy's hand and wakes him up to the bad consequences of his plan. She doesn't let RA manipulate her. But she can't land the man she loves; he's too attached to his past. The End.
I wouldn't fight for this to be tagged Music/al. Nor against it.
Warner, dir. Walsh; 6-
