DIRECTOR: Curtis Bernhardt

CAST: Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Alexis Smith, Rose Hobart, Charles Drake, Pat O’Moore

REVIEW:

Filmed in 1943 but not released until 18 months later, directed by Curtis Bernhardt and scripted by Arthur T. Gorman and Dwight Taylor based on the short story The Pentacle by Robert Siodmak and Alfred Neumann, Conflict is a moderately diverting but routine example of one of those atmospheric black-and-white suspense noirs of the 1940s and 1950s (far from the only one to star Humphrey Bogart) that does a watchable job of keeping us intrigued with twists and turns in the moment, even if the big reveals don’t make a lot of sense in the end. It has its moments, but its series of contrivances leave it one of Bogart’s lesser films from the time period.