The Crooked Web
6.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Nathan H. Juran Music director Mischa Bakaleinikoff Duration Country United States | 6/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir Produced by Sam Katzman Writer Lou Breslow (story) Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 30, 1955 Cast Frank Lovejoy (Stanley E. 'Stan' Fabian), Mari Blanchard (Joanie Daniel), Richard Denning (Frank Daniel), John Mylong (Herr Koenig), Harry Lauter (Sgt. Mike Jancoweizc), Steven Ritch (Ramon 'Ray' Torres)Similar movies W Delta Z , I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine , Memories of Murder , Taken 3 , Mad Max: Fury Road , Untraceable Tagline World's Most Beautiful Bait! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Crooked Web is a 1955 film noir directed by Nathan Juran. It stars Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard and Richard Denning.
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Plot
Stan Fabian runs a drive-in restaurant with girlfriend Joanie Daniel, whose brother Frank turns up for a visit. Joanie has declined to marry Stan because he's strapped for cash, but Frank tempts him with a proposition, mentioning that he and a partner hid a stash of gold in Germany during the war.
Stan accepts an offer to help recover the gold for a cut of the loot. What he doesn't know is that Joanie and Frank are actually undercover cops. A rich businessman's son was apparently killed by Stan during a deal gone wrong, but the German police are unable to extradite him to charge him with a crime.
Frank pretends to shoot his partner, using blanks. He secretly meets with Berlin chief of police Koenig, pretending to be looking for the gold. Stan fears a double-cross, but confesses his wartime murder to Joanie, and is shocked to be placed under arrest.
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