A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
I had the good fortune to catch this at a screening at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge. One of the most brutal main Characters of any film noir, Mike Hammer here is a fascinating deconstruction of the hard boiled tough P.I. the movie comments upon the entire idea of the "Macguffin" as something that ought not to ever really be explained in stories, all that matters is that it gets our characters moving. A last act twist turns this into a almost sci-fi or even horror noir. One of the great films of the 1950s and A perfect way to cap off Noirvember.
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