The Reckoning

19321932
1h 3m

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5.1/10

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Sally Blane, Edmund Breese, James Murray, and Bryant Washburn in The Reckoning (1932)

Crime Drama

Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.

IMDb RATING

5.1/10

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

283,729

108,863

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Director
- Harry L. Fraser
Writers
- Dwight Cummins(story)
- Harry L. Fraser
- Leon Lee
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Trivia
This film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast.

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5/10

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It's a B mystery directed by Harry Fraser and starring James Murray and Sally Blane. While there's nothing wrong with any of the performances, certainly Fraser was never a particularly interesting director, and this story about how the two leads are making an effort to get out of the rackets and not succeeding very well is clearly something in the background of film noir.

The leads are appealing and natural, but the stiff dialogue does not suit them. Here's a very early proto-noir with nothing visually striking that you can skip.

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