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Shakedown (1950)

Shakedown (1950)

Drama Crime Thriller

His camera Was More Deadly Than A Gangster's Gun!

Release Date: 1950, September 1
Directors: Joseph Pevney
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal International Pictures, Universal International Pictures
Cast: Roy Engel, Ralph Brooks, Bess Flowers, Lawrence Tierney, Winifred Harris, Bert Davidson, Leota Lorraine, Forbes Murray, Chester Conklin, Peter Virgo, William H. O'Brien, Charles Flynn

Overview:

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.

Keywords:

robbery murder gangster film noir infidelity photographer blackmail extortion black and white san francisco, california mobster seduction photograph opportunist despair newspaper man