Subj : Accused of Murder (1952)
To : All
From : Arelor
Date : Thu Jul 28 2022 06:40 pm
Hello, moviegoers! Today I am showing up with a film that is not a sequel and
does not belong to a franchise. I guess this automatically makes this movie a
pre-2000s one :-)
Enter Accused of Murder, a noir film from Republican pictures, a producer that
can boast of having the Americaniest logo ever.
Accused of Murder tells the story of a nightclub singer who the police suspects
has killed a famous lawyer with mob connections. Only a cop is willing to trust
her innocence: meanwhile, the actual mobsters that killed the lawyer are doing
their best not to get caught themselves.
I will be honest here and declare that the first thing that came to mind when
the film got started that was it was a second class movie which was trying to
be like one of Humphrey Bogart s hits. The scenarios have this classic vibe
that only classic films posess, and the vestuary is quite fine, so it does not
look _cheap_. It is clear right from the start that the plot is not going to be
overly suspenseful or complex, though.
The strongest point of this film is its cast, and more surprisingly, the
secondary actors. It is not that the characters are multidimensional and
complicated - quite the opposite, actually - but characterization scores 10 out
of 10. You can tell certain cop is a bad cop just by the way he looks at people
while interrogating them. You can tell certain girl at a nightclub is a lowlife
that would stab somebody for pocket change just by the way she manages around.
In fact I'd say straight that the main characters, the Nightclub singer and the
cop who covers for her, fall flat in comparisson.
Just so you get an idea: when I was watching this movie with my father, he
mentioned that the bad cop was doing a great role for a secondary. After the
movie was over, I looked the cast up and found out the actor playing him was
fucking Lee Van Cleef.
Sadly, the movie is lacking what it takes to achieve true greatness. The plot
is fine, but there is a crippling lack of suspense. Since the audience already
knows (or believes to know) what is going on, the only question is whether the
singer will get to the electric chair or not... and, quite frankly, she is not
hot enough, or smart enough, or interesting enough for me to care too much.
Accused of Murder is like a preparation for dementia: you will have a nice
experience and then forget about it in half a minute. Still, it is much better
than the material available on modern streaming platforms, which is itself a
_cause_ of dementia, among other ailments.
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