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Calcutta is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by John Farrow, and written and produced by Seton I. Miller. The drama features Alan Ladd, Gail Russell and William Bendix.
A couple of pilots, Neale Gordon and Pedro Blake played by Alan Ladd and William Bendix, who fly cargo over the mountains between Burma and India just after WW2, investigate the murder of fellow pilot Bill Cunningham.
- (735)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- John Farrow
- 1947-08-13
Calcutta 1946Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virgini...
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Brief Synopsis. Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
- John Farrow, Herbert Coleman
- Alan Ladd
Calcutta is representative of its time because the most significant year of the femme fatale in film noir is 1947, as shown not only in the frequency but also the variety of ways she appears. The character is principally associated with hardboiled film noir.
The film follows two cargo pilots who become entangled in a murder mystery after their close friend is killed in Calcutta. As they investigate, Neale (Ladd) becomes suspicious of a deeper plot and begins to fall for the dead man's fiancee (Russell).
Cargo-plane pilots (Alan Ladd, William Bendix) link their buddy's strangulation to smugglers flying gems out of India.
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