Day 11 of The Daily Dish: Hello, RKO!

Honestly, I don’t know what I was thinking when I came up with today’s Daily Dish topic: Favorite RKO Noir. Obviously, I didn’t give a lot of consideration to just how many first-rate features were released by this studio! I mean, here are just a few: The Locket (1946), They Won’t Believe Me (1947), Desperate (1947), They Live By Night (1948), The Set-Up (1949), Armored Car Robbery (1950), Sudden Fear (1952), and the granddaddy of all RKO noirs, Out of the Past (1947). Sheesh! After much rumination, I finally narrowed down my choices and decided to go with Lawrence Tierney and Claire Trevor in one of my most-often seen noirs: Born to Kill (1947). Tierney plays Sam Wild, a short-tempered psychopath who hightails it to San Francisco after committing a double murder in Reno, Nevada. On the way to California, he meets and becomes involved with newly divorced Helen Brent (Trevor), who possesses a sense of depravity that is perfectly in sync with Sam’s. They’re a match made somewhere, but…

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