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Shakedown (1950)
Directed by Joseph Pevney
“His camera Was More Deadly Than A Gangster's Gun!”
Crime, Drama, Thriller · 1h 20m
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.
Cast
Howard Duff
Jack Early
Brian Donlevy
Nick Palmer
Peggy Dow
Ellen Bennett
Lawrence Tierney
Harry Colton
Bruce Bennett
David Glover
Anne Vernon
Nita Palmer
Jack Reitzen
Joe Downing
P
Peter Virgo
Roy
Charles Sherlock
Sam
E
Elsie Baker
Palmer's Maid (uncredited)
R
Ralph Brooks
Photographer (uncredited)
D
Douglas Carter
Photographer (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Joseph Pevney
- Screenplay
- Alfred Lewis Levitt, Martin Goldsmith
- Director of Photography
- Irving Glassberg
- Editor
- Milton Carruth
- Producer
- Ted Richmond
Details
- Release date
- 1950-09-01
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal International Pictures