Shakedown (1950 film)
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Story by Don Martin, Nat Dallinger Country United States | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 25 August 1950 Screenplay Alfred Lewis Levitt, Martin Goldsmith Cast (Jack Early), (Nick Palmer), (Ellen Bennett), (Harry Colton), (David Glover), (Nita Palmer (as Ann Vernon)) Similar movies The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest , The Big Sleep , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , Double Indemnity , Sunset Boulevard , The Night of the Hunter Tagline His camera Was More Deadly Than A Gangster's Gun! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shakedown is a 1950 crime film noir directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy, Peggy Dow, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett and Anne Vernon.
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Plot
Unscrupulous newspaper photographer Jack Early (Howard Duff) is sent to take a picture of racketeer Nick Palmer (Brian Donlevy), who doesn't like to be captured on celluloid. Palmer takes a liking to Early and asks him to frame his henchmen Colton (Lawrence Tierney). Early double-crosses Palmer and informes Colton that his boss had planned to frame him. Shortly afterward Palmer is killed by a car bomb and Early becomes famous for taking a picture of the event. Eventually Early is himself killed by Colton but he manages to snap a picture of his murderer in the act.
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