“I
want to breathe. That's why I want out of this place... so I can take a deep
breath again.”
Raw Deal begins with Pat Cameron (Clair
Trevor) going to visit a guy named Joe in jail. The guard tells Pat she is
going to have to wait a minute because someone is already in there talking to
Joe. The person talking to Joe is another woman named Ann. She is a social
worker who has been trying to reform him. Joe does not need too much reforming.
He took the fall for a crime for a gangster named Rick.
Sometime
later Joe breaks out of jail and Pat is the getaway driver. Rick set the whole
breakout up but with the idea that Joe would be killed and he would not have to
pay him the promised fifty thousand dollars for taking the fall. Unfortunately
for Rick, Joe survives his breakout. He has her drive to Ann’s house. He has
fallen in love with her and forces her to come with him. Pat is not too happy
with Ann coming along because she can see that Joe really loves her.
Since
Joe has escaped successfully Rick now has to come up with another plan to get
rid of Joe. Rick gets to Joe by having Ann brought to him.
Raw Deal was alright. Clair Trevor as Pat
does the voiceover in certain parts of the story. The idea of a female doing a
voice over in a Film Noir is great but it did not work out well in this film at
all. To me the voiceover seemed to set up the story from Pat’s point of view
but it was not told from her point of view. It went back and forth between all
the characters. Pat was just super annoying. I am not sure if Pat was annoying
as a character or if Clair Trevor just made her annoying with her overdramatic
acting. Raw Deal is only worth
watching if you really like Film Noir otherwise skip it.
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