Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop is one of my favorite movies in the Ultimate Film Noir Collection. Leonide Moguy directed this 1946 film, which lasts a convenient 84 minutes. Ava Gardner plays the woman who returns to her hometown, where the local citizens find her a little too sexy for small-town standards. She rejoins her old flame (George Raft), a local gambler who tests the limits of shady activity when he gets himself involved in a murder plot. The sexy woman who just got off the train goes along for the wild ride.