Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

PimpinAinttEasy Great noir crime thriller with supernatural (?) sci-fi elements. A femme fatale who cannot wait for her man to come out of jail and retrieve the $0.4 million that he has stashed somewhere, gets to know about an antidote that could bring him back from the dead, if he was put to death in the gas chamber.The tall Jean Gillie was very beautiful and acted reasonably well. She tears through one man after the other without even delivering a kiss. Majorie Woodworth who played the doctor's nurse was also easy on the eyes. Jim Vincent plays the street smart detective with ease. Except for a few instances, the film is not that big on noir cinematography. Some of the scenes have a play like quality about them like when Jean Gillie's explains the motivations for her actions to the idealistic doctor. The ending was superb - the note left by the person who buries the money is very cynical - "to you who double crossed me, I leave this dollar for your troubles. the rest of the dough, I leave to the worms."Some of these low budget noir flicks like DECOY and DETOUR would put a lot of so called classics to shame. The film deserves a remake for sure.(8/10)

Spikeopath Decoy is directed by Jack Bernhard and adapted to screenplay by Nedrick Young from a story written by Stanley Rubin. It stars Jean Gillie, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard and Edward Norris. Music is by Edward J. Kay and cinematography by L. William O'Connell.Margot Shelby (Gillie) is dying on the sofa, a "victim" of a gunshot wound. Sgt. Jo Portugal (Leonard) leans in to hear the story of how she came to be in this situation…Manic, delirious, bonkers, nasty, Decoy is all of those things, and more, wonderfully so. Running at under 80 minutes, this "B" noir out of Monogram spins a cruel tale of greed, fatalism and cold blooded homicide, all propelled by one of the coldest and wickedest femme fatales to have ever worn a pair of stilettos.Plot involves money of course, there's a pot load of it buried somewhere and Margot Shelby wants it. The trouble is is that her criminal boyfriend, Frank Olins (Armstrong), is going to the gas chamber and he isn't telling anyone where the loot is. No problem for Margot, she uses her cunning feminine wiles to ensnare a couple of male dupes into her web, and then the three of them resurrect Frank from the dead and put into action a plan that will reveal where the cash is. Easy Peasy!As the brilliant beginning has shown us, we know the fate of Margot, what you can't be ready for is what she is prepared to do to achieve her aims, and her means and motives sock you right between the eyes. Even as death approaches she still has to have the last cruel laugh. The beautifully sensuous Gillie gives a thoroughly memorable performance, it's a tragedy that she would die three years later of pneumonia, aged just 33.Elsewhere. Bernhard (who was married to Gillie at the time) is only competent in direction, but along with the performance he gets out of Gillie (which was a veer from the norm for her), he also gets a cracker turn out of Leonard. Kay's music is inconsistent, even too breezy in the wrong areas, and O'Connell's photography is standard stuff that doesn't strive for any mood accentuation.Yes you have to kind of unscrew your brain and black out some of the more dafter elements here, and there's some unintentionally cheese laden moments, but what an experience it is all told. 7.5/10

JLRMovieReviews We open on a man who seems disoriented and who is walking on the side of a country road and moving slowly and deliberately like a zombie. Who is this strange man? And, what is he up to? We see him hitchhiking, getting a ride, and getting into town. He arrives at an apartment building, and as he goes up the elevator and on his desired floor, we see he is armed.Newcomer Jean Gillie narrates this story by flashback. She tells of how her man was in stir. She wants him out so that she can get her hands on his stolen loot that he had hidden and only he can find. The hitch is that he is about to get the chair, and she with an accomplice are planning on stealing a corpse and bringing him back to life.This definitely is a curiosity piece and perhaps the weakest of the lot in the Classic Film Noir Set #4. But still worth a look for its relatively fast pace and unique plot that, while it feels ahead of its time, it bites off more than it can chew. With its outlandish elements, the viewer may feel somewhat disappointed and/or dissatisfied. But overall for 70 minutes, it does entertain.

JoeKarlosi DECOY (1946)If you like strange movies, try this. A ruthless femme fatale (Jean Gillie) does whatever is necessary to the men in her life to get hold of some stashed "dough". Part of this odd noir film involves the theme of reviving the dead, so hence there's an offbeat horror angle thrown in on the side.I thought Gillie was terrific in her role, and there was some fun dialogue and able assistance from Sheldon Leonard and Robert Armstrong, among others. A very weird film indeed.*** out of ****