Crime
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
Directed by
Joseph M. Newman
Written by
Francis Swann, Richard English
Bert Freed
Steve Marshak (uncredited)
Walter Sande
Auto Repair Mechanic (uncredited)
Cleo Moore
Mal's Date (uncredited)
Otto Kruger
Carl Stephans
Harry Lauter
Flirty Man at Bar (uncredited)
Dorothy Patrick
Trudy Maxwell
George Magrill
Boulder Dam Tourist (uncredited)
Don Porter
Larry Mason
Edmond O'Brien
Mal Granger
Amzie Strickland
Dame at Boxing Match (uncredited)
Joanne Dru
Gail Mason
Frank Dae
Pop (uncredited)
Al Hill
Al - Las Vegas Bookmaker (uncredited)
Carl Milletaire
Joe Gish (uncredited)
Odette Myrtil
Hank Mann
Counterman (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Man at Racetrack (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
Bookie (uncredited)
Barry Kelley
Vince Walters
Fred Aldrich
Peterson - Carl's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Robert Osterloh
Gizzi
Howard St. John
Lieutenant Pete Wright
Sammy White
Chippie Evans
Gail Bonney
Chippie's Date (uncredited)
Charles Jordan
Tim - Bookie (uncredited)
Phillip Barnes
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Jay Barney
Detective Carter (uncredited)
George DeNormand
Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Sidney Dubin
Mendel Weiss (uncredited)
Charles Ferguson
Bookie (uncredited)
William Getts
Hoover Dam Guide (uncredited)
Edward Grandpere
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Joe Gray
Boxer (uncredited)
Robert Haines
Credit Union Clerk (uncredited)
Charles La Torre
Rocco (uncredited)
Earl Merritt
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Ralph Montgomery
Sonny - Spotter / Henchman (uncredited)
Joey Ray
Las Vegas Bookmaker (uncredited)
Jack Raymond
Bookie in Montage (uncredited)
Brick Sullivan
Boulder Dam Tourist (uncredited)
Duke Watson
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Jack Weiler
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

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