EXPLODES...in a sinister network of evil!
When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.
- 6.0
- 1954
- Released
- 1h 27m
Dane Clark
Casey Morrow
Belinda Lee
Phyllis Brunner
Betty Ann Davies
Mrs. Alicia Brunner
Eleanor Summerfield
Margaret 'Maggie' Doone
Andrew Osborn
Lance Gordon
Harold Lang
Travis / Victor Vanno
Jill Melford
Miss Nardis
Alvys Maben
Lita Huntley (as Alvis Maben)
Michael Golden
Inspector Johnson
Nora Gordon
Casey's Mother
Alfie Bass
Ernie
Cleo Laine
Singer (uncredited)
Released
en
- #london, england
- #based on novel or book
- #blackout
- #film noir
- #british noir
- #frame up
- #set up
- #framed for murder
- #manipulative woman
- #innocent man
Reviews
As was common in the fifties, a jobbing American B-lister was brought over to add a bit of box office to a mid-budget British crime thriller. This time it was Dane Clark who portrays the down at heel "Morrow". In a bar he meets the glamorous "Phyllis Brunner" (Belinda Lee) who gets him a bit drunk then offers him £500 to marry her. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he acquiesces to this perfectly reasonable