Hints and tips:
...Here the gun was a Colt or a Smith & Wesson, the girl was a femme fatale; Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Lizabeth Scott, Susan Hayward or one of their ilk....
...Such echoes are mostly to long-forgotten films of the kind that turn up, in the US, on Turner Classic Movies during an Ann Sheridan or Lizabeth Scott film festival....
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