Walk a Crooked Mile
6.2 /10 1 Votes6.2
Duration Language English | 6/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir Screenplay George Bruce Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 2, 1948 (1948-09-02) (United States) Cast (Philip 'Scotty' Grayson), Dennis O'Keefe (Daniel F. O'Hara), (Dr. Toni Neva), (Dr. Ritter von Stolb), (Igor Braun), (Krebs)Similar movies Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation , Salt , Kingsman: The Secret Service , Bridge of Spies , The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , Spy Tagline FBI teams up with Scotland Yard to avenge murder of G-Man! |
Walk a Crooked Mile is a 1948 film noir crime film directed by Gordon Douglas starring Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe and Louise Allbritton.
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Plot
A spy ring has infiltrated Lakeview Laboratory of Nuclear Physics, a Southern California atomic research center. Scotland Yard detective Philip Grayson (Louis Hayward) and FBI agent Dan O'Hara (Dennis O'Keefe) are on the case.
Cast
Production
The film was originally titled FBI vs Scotland Yard but this was changed at the request of J. Edgar Hoover.
Reception
When the film was released, The New York Times film critic, Bosley Crowther, while giving the film mixed review, wrote well of the screenplay, "No use to speak of the action or the acting. It's strictly routine. But the plot is deliberately sensational."
The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a favorable review, writing, "Action swings to San Francisco and back to the southland, punching hard all the time under the knowledgeable direction of Gordon Douglas. On-the-site filming of locales adds authenticity. George Bruce has loaded his script with nifty twists that add air of reality to the meller doings in the Bertram Millhauser story. Dialog is good and situations believably developed, even the highly contrived melodramatic finale. Documentary flavor is forwarded by Reed Hadley's credible narration chore."
References
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