Shakedown
His camera Was More Deadly Than A Gangster's Gun!
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- Drama
- Crime
- Thriller
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
- california
- murder
- san francisco
- gangster
- robbery
- photographer
- infidelity
- black and white
- mobster
- seduction
- photograph
- despair
- film noir
- blackmail
- extortion
- newspaper man
- opportunist
- san francisco, california
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 1, 1950
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal International Pictures
- Cast
- Howard Duff,Brian Donlevy,Peggy Dow,Lawrence Tierney,Bruce Bennett,Anne Vernon,Jack Reitzen,Peter Virgo,Charles Sherlock,Elsie Bakerand 33 more
- Director
- Joseph Pevney
- Producer
- Ted Richmond
- Cinematography
- Irving Glassberg
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0042953