DARK CORNER isn’t as good as other films reviewed on this page, and is in fact derivitative of some of them. But it does provide enough first-rate bits of noir business and noir characters to make at least one viewing worth the time. Following in the gumshoes of so many other noir victims, ex con-turned-private dick Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens) is falsely accused of a murder. Learning someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him, he, with the help of his spunky secretary (a pre-"Lucy" Lucille Ball), dives deep into a deadly web of mystery in search of answers, along the way running into uppity Clifton Webb, more or less repeating his cad character in LAURA (same screenwriter) and lowlife William Bendix as a murderous thug called "White Suit.”
THE DARK CORNER (1946)
Love Lucy, noir style
DARK CORNER isn’t as good as other films reviewed on this page, and is in fact derivitative of some of them. But it does provide enough first-rate bits of noir business and noir characters to make at least one viewing worth the time. Following in the gumshoes of so many other noir victims, ex con-turned-private dick Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens) is falsely accused of a murder. Learning someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him, he, with the help of his spunky secretary (a pre-"Lucy" Lucille Ball), dives deep into a deadly web of mystery in search of answers, along the way running into uppity Clifton Webb, more or less repeating his cad character in LAURA (same screenwriter) and lowlife William Bendix as a murderous thug called "White Suit.”
