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The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Stealing a slogan from Gilda to describe such evil woman like Margot Shelby,although the plot was unbelievable,this picture is a real gem and l thrilled when heard that it will be came out shortly,after to watch it didn't disappoint me,in a blood killer woman,greedy femme fatale like few,she behave like a spider,handling every men at your feet,dragging down,pushing, hurting with no feelings at all...apart the methylene blue and another holes that come along in a low budge noir..all remains is fantastic,so sorry for too short time picture!!!Resume: First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.5

***SPOILERS*** Staggering to Margot Shelby's, Jean Gillie, high rise apartment barley clinging to life Dr. Craig, Herbert Rudley, has a last present to give her for all the trouble that she caused him: A blast from his .38 to remember him by. Coming on the scene is tough Sgt. JoJo Portugal, Sheldon Leonard, wearing a hat at least three times the size of his head-To prevent him from getting sunstroke-to clean up things as well as get a confession from the dying Margot in what put her into the position, Of dying from a gunshot wound, that she finds herself in.As Margot is slowing fading away we get the story of her boyfriend Frankie Olins, Robert Armstrong, who after knocking off an armored car of $400,000.00 and killing the driver was sentenced to be executed in San Quentin's gas chamber. It was Margot with the help of the prison doctor Craig who revived his body with a secret drug that brought him back to life and then had Frankie tell her and her partner Jim Vincent, Edward Norris, just where he had the stolen money is:hidden in a safe box under the base of an eucalyptus tree in the middle of the California Desert!***SPOILERS*** What all those involved-Dr. Craig Frankie Olins & Jim Vincent-don't realize is that Margot is planning to keep all the loot all to herself and have all three knocked off to keep her from splitting it with them. It's after using her last victim Dr. Craig to get through a number of police road blocks Margot blast him away only for Dr. Craig to survive and track her down,while bleeding to death, to her pad in the city to finally do her in. As Sgt.JoJo Portugal was later to find out the late Frankie Oline was on to the double-crossing Margot right from the start and left almost the entire $400,000.00 to cancer research minus for one measly dollar bill that he left, in the box, for her to treat herself to a hot dog fries and soda pop!

A criminal gang conspires to steal a big sum from one of its members through an elaborate plan to return him from the dead.Margot (Gillie) doesn't explode until the end when we find out what a psychopath she really is. No doubt about it, she's in the same vicious league as Annie Laurie Starr of Gun Crazy (1949). The storyline here is about as unrelenting as a windstorm in Chicago. No, there's no redemption for any of this crew. Credit screenwriter-actor Nedrick Young for the unregenerate character concepts. I suspect no studio of the time would touch such uncompromising material. Likely, the lurid content also kept the crime drama off Late Shows, as was apparently the case.Margot is one heckuva spider woman, with the car keys or without them. If she isn't playing games with her dead husband (Armstrong), she's ruining the life of Dr. Craig (Rudley, in a fine performance). Then too, the doc really should be ignoring her well-turned ankle instead of lusting after it. Too bad he realizes this too late. The movie's not a complete success. Some plot developments, like returning from the dead through better chemistry, are a stretch, while director Bernhard adds little to the styling. At the same time, supposed gang leader Edward Norris makes little impression. But maybe that was supposed to be since he's not really the leader. Anyhow, the noir's a sleeper, with something of a wacked-out screenplay, but definitely worth catching up with.(In passing—good to see the Runyonesque Sheldon Leonard playing it straight and picking up a payday, even as a cop, no less.)

Decoy has a ridiculous plot. It's about a plot to get a prison doctor to revive a gangster after his death sentence is carried out in the gas chamber so that the gangster's moll can find out the location of money from a heist gone awry. This is pretty far-fetched and I'm not sure I buy it. But the magic of the movie is that I don't buy it now, but when I was watching this petite little B flick, I was thoroughly entertained. It covers the corners of a film noir with all the caricatures and all the frowning settings.This overall ironic noir, now that it's over, feels like a bit of a throwaway. It doesn't do much in the way of originality or freshness. It recycles the same notes to the same tunes we've already heard thousands of times. It just plays them with a different instrument. If this were not very much my type of movie, what with the gangsters, femmes fatale, double-crosses, heist loot, and those sorts, I would hardly have cared about much during. However, since it is, I was entertained for its thankful 76-minute duration.Everything is passable. I think Robert Armstrong has the right look for a gangster street wise enough to take the secret of his loot to his grave. Jean Gillie is a decent gun moll, especially considering that one would hardly guess that she is English. All her sideline squeezes are tough-looking, swarthy men in black suits who look like they were the bullies in junior high, and Herbert Rudley, the everyman prison doctor stuck in the middle, though he is thankfully a no-name, was tolerable as the protagonist.