written by WR Burnett & Catherine Turney
Hollywood CA 1947
In honour of her hundredth birthday today it seemed best to showcase her work with one of her favorite collaborators, and later mentor, Raoul Walsh. Ida Lupino is at the center of her fourth film with Walsh, a noir musical, where her character, Petey Brown, solves everyone’s problems but her own. Bruce Bennett plays the man she loves, a troubled jazz pianist capable of greatness but determined to fail. She’s the only one holding chaos and hunger at bay. Robert Alda plays the club owner who wants to control her, even as he’s screwing her foolish sister in law, and inadvertently causing the girl’s death. Petey just manages to stop her brother from killing him; then she watches her own lover sail away for good.
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