Death of a Scoundrel "Independent" will go to any length

will go to any length to eliminate the one witness who caught the grisly details on videotape

A Southern Yankee is truly a piece of motion picture history

It all adds up to "a good vehicle for the team with a great slapstick finale" (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide)

an amusing lot of comic complications

Critic Bosley Crowther of The New York Times had high praise for Bogie's special ability to make villainous Duke likable and also extolled the film's "sharply written script and good cast

Death of a Scoundrel "Independent" will go to any length"He was the most hated man on earth. But he could have been one of the great men in history. He was a genius." So begins the post mortem recollections of the cast of characters that had the misfortune of crossing paths with Clementi Sabourin, a cad of such monumental proportions that only George Sanders could play him. Clementi's story plays out in a series of flashbacks, as his life story is relayed by those who knew him to the police, who are