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Synopsis: In San Francisco, during the 1940s, US Treasury agents interrupt an illicit exchange between a sailor and a drug dealer. During the shootout, the sailor is killed but the drug dealer escapes. Later on,the agents pick up the trail of the fugitive drug dealer but arrive at his apartment too late. The dealer lays dead, permanently silenced by a hired hit-man. The only thing the agents have is an address book found on the dead drug dealer's body. Among the clues there is one that seems to be promising: the address of a shady Canadian trading company based in Vancouver. Treasury agent George Morton decides to visit a convict in Alcatraz and solicit his help in infiltrating the underworld. Morton knows that convincing the imprisoned criminal Johnny Evans to become a stool pigeon for the Feds won't be easy. But Evans is Morton's only hope to infiltrate the underworld and crack the case.
Director(s): William Castle
Production: Universal Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.8
Year:
1949
76 min
35 Views


All right. Get'em up, all of you.

Get over there.

Keep your hands up.

Open it up.

You know him?

Avery's trigger man.

I got an idea this box

was made for a bigger guy.

Yeah, somebody about your size.

The stuff was there, all right.

Enough room in there to pack a ton of it.

Let's go.

Come on.

Pringle, Tucson office.

Pringle, Tucson office, over.

Tucson to Pringle, go ahead.

Contact local authorities for a full description

of Nicholas Avery and Charles Borderaux.

Thought to be making a getaway

from the B-bar-M Ranch. Cover that spot.

Broadcast a full description

on four-state alarm and set up road blocks.

These men are wanted on a narcotics charge,

they're dangerous and fully armed.

Confirm. Over.

Roger.

That is all. Pringle to Tucson. Out.

They'll make a run for it now.

They'll be pretty desperate.

What about the girl?

The one that phoned.

I was just thinking the same thing.

We gotta get out of here.

Why?

Where are we going?

Across the border.

Where are the fellas?

They ran into a little trouble.

What kind of trouble?

The same kinda trouble we're gonna run into

if we don't move in a hurry.

I'll a... I'll get my things.

You won't have time.

Bring that. Come on.

Open the door. Let's get out of here.

Go in behind the hangar.

Well, that's it.

Within a matter of hours,

the greatest international narcotics ring

since the war was stopped cold

before it even got started.

In simultaneous raids, Martinez and his gang

were rounded up by Mexican authorities

And 1700 miles away, in Vancouver, British Columbia,

the McCandles mob was taken into custody.

Six months later the trials were over

with convictions in every instance.

In sentences ranging anywhere

from five to twenty years.

And star witnesses for the government had been

a girl named Terry Stewart

and an ex-convict named Johnny Evans.

So long... copper.

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Robert L. Richards

Robert L. Richards was a film screenwriter. Richards worked on a number of notable films of the 1940s and 1950s including Winchester '73, Johnny Stool Pigeon, and Act of Violence. His radio work included writing for the Suspense series which aired on the CBS network from 1942 until 1962. Among Richards' numerous Suspense offerings was his critically acclaimed neogothic horror thriller entitled The House in Cypress Canyon broadcast on December 5, 1946. Considered one of the tautest, most chilling dramas in the Suspense canon, the now classic show featured Robert Taylor, Cathy Lewis, Hans Conried, and Howard Duff in starring roles. Richards was blacklisted in Hollywood because of his left wing views. He wrote under various pseudonyms to get work, until he finally gave up and became a carpenter. He retired to Pátzcuaro, Mexico, where he died, still bitter about the career he had lost. more…

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