Chicago Deadline

A bit of late-forties noir fluff starring Ida Lupino and the noble Alan Ladd. Reporter seeking traces of dead woman falls in love with her en route: a watered-down Laura. However. This is a movie which is never seen whole and entire, but always and only in fragments. Therefore, a poignant and tear-stained masterpiece, a movie that haunts its viewers for as long as they live and which ever speaks to them in dreams and images glimpsed, or thought to be glimpsed, out of the corners of their eyes. If never remembered, likewise never forgotten.