Johnny Stool Pigeon
7 /10 1 Votes7
Duration Language English | 6.8/10 Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 2, 1949 (1949-09-02) (New York City) Cast (George Morton), (Terry Stewart), (Johnny Evans), (Joey Hyatt (as Anthony Curtis)), (Nick Avery), Gar Moore (Sam Harrison)Similar movies The Night of the Hunter , Double Indemnity , Vertigo , The Third Man , Le Samouraï , Notorious |
Johnny stool pigeon crime film with lanky king of sleaze dan duryea
Johnny Stool Pigeon is a 1949 film noir crime film directed by William Castle starring Howard Duff, Shelley Winters and Dan Duryea.
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- Johnny stool pigeon crime film with lanky king of sleaze dan duryea
- Johnny stool pigeon trailer
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Critical response
- References

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Plot

A narcotics agent convinces a convict he helped send to Alcatraz go undercover with him to help expose a heroin drug smuggling ring. The unlikely pair travels from San Francisco to Vancouver and finally to a dude ranch in Tucson which is run by mob bosses. They end up getting help breaking the case from the gang leader's dingy blonde girlfriend (Winters), who falls for the narcotics agent during the sting.
Cast

Production

The film was known as Contraband and Partners in Crime.
Critical response

When the film was released, the film critic for The New York Times, gave the film a tepid review, writing, "Despite a serious attempt at authenticity it is merely a brisk cops-and-smugglers melodrama, which follows an obvious pattern and is fairly strong on suspense and short on originality and impressive histrionics ... Howard Duff, who has had plenty of experience as a gumshoe both on the radio and in films, is appropriately self-effacing, hard and handsome as the intrepid agent. Dan Duryea adds a surprising twist to his usual characterizations of tough hombres as the convict who turns on his own kind, and Shelley Winters gives a credible performance as the blonde moll who also gives the law a much-needed assist. But aside from a few variations their crime and punishment adventures are cast in a familiar mold."




References
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