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Best movie of this year hands down!

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Great noir crime thriller with supernatural (?) sci-fi elements. A femme fatale who cannot wait for her man to come out of jail and retrieve the $0.4 million that he has stashed somewhere, gets to know about an antidote that could bring him back from the dead, if he was put to death in the gas chamber.The tall Jean Gillie was very beautiful and acted reasonably well. She tears through one man after the other without even delivering a kiss. Majorie Woodworth who played the doctor's nurse was also easy on the eyes. Jim Vincent plays the street smart detective with ease. Except for a few instances, the film is not that big on noir cinematography. Some of the scenes have a play like quality about them like when Jean Gillie's explains the motivations for her actions to the idealistic doctor. The ending was superb - the note left by the person who buries the money is very cynical - "to you who double crossed me, I leave this dollar for your troubles. the rest of the dough, I leave to the worms."Some of these low budget noir flicks like DECOY and DETOUR would put a lot of so called classics to shame. The film deserves a remake for sure.(8/10)

I watched "Decoy" on a Friday and barely remember enough about it to muster up this comment on the following Monday.I'm a devoted film noir lover, and it doesn't take much to satisfy me: I just need a bit of that noir atmosphere, hard-boiled dialogue, and moody cinematography to make one watchable. I don't usually expect much from the plot, since in these kind of movies the plot is many times beside the point. But the entire premise of "Decoy" is just too preposterous to bear. I might have been able to get past that if the other elements of the film had been better, but the acting, especially by Jean Gillie, who's given an "introducing" during the film's opening credits, is terrible, and every other aspect of the film is mediocre at best.Maybe worth seeing for a noir completist but otherwise one to pass by.Grade: D

Jack Bernhard directed this obscure cult item and bizarre film noir/horror hybrid that stars Jean Gillie as a ruthless Femme Fatale who seduces gangster Jim Vincent to break into a prison where her husband(played by Robert Armstrong) has just been executed in the gas chamber, but she knows a way of reviving him so that he will tell her where his fortune in cash is buried! The plan works until Jim kills her husband in a fit of jealousy, forcing them to find the money with an incomplete map. Sheldon Leonard plays the policeman in pursuit. Strange film has a ridiculous plot, but Jean Gillie is something else as the lethal leading lady, truly an unrepentant sociopath to the bitter end.

DECOY (1946)If you like strange movies, try this. A ruthless femme fatale (Jean Gillie) does whatever is necessary to the men in her life to get hold of some stashed "dough". Part of this odd noir film involves the theme of reviving the dead, so hence there's an offbeat horror angle thrown in on the side.I thought Gillie was terrific in her role, and there was some fun dialogue and able assistance from Sheldon Leonard and Robert Armstrong, among others. A very weird film indeed.*** out of ****