On this day in movie history - Dead Reckoning (1947)

Dead Reckoning

directed by John Cromwell,

written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. Garrett,

based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams, Sidney Biddell and Allen Rivkin,

was released in the United States on January 15, 1947.

Music by Marlin Skiles.

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince, Marvin Miller, Wallace Ford, James Bell, George Chandler, William Forrest, Ruby Dandridge.

Born on this day – Stephen Dwoskin:

Director

Cinematographer

Editor

Writer

Producer

January 15, 1939 – June 28, 2012

Born on this day – Jacqueline Pierreux:

Actress

January 15, 1923 – March 10, 2005

Born on this day – Lloyd Bridges:

 

Actor

January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998

Born on this day – Marcello Pagliero:

Actor

Writer

Director

January 15, 1907 – December 9, 1980

Born on this day – William Beaudine:

Actor

Director

January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970

Credits:

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Toni Morrison, on writing:

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self,

to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar,

is the test of their power.

- Toni Morrison.