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WRONG MAN THEME HOLDS AUDIENCE IN ITS GRIPS
WELL DONE NOIR USING THE WRONG MAN THEME. BARRY SULLIVAN LEADING A NORMAL LIFE AS A BANK TELLER AND THE BEAUTIFUL DOROTHY MALONE ARE CAUGHT IN A NIGHTMARE THAT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO ESCAPE. EACH RABBIT HOLE HE FINDS TO BEGIN A NEW LIFE IS DESTROYED BY HIS FATE TO BE CHOSEN AS A DUPE. WELL DONE ACTING BY SULLIVAN AND MALONE AS WELL AS THE GROWLING CHARLES MCGRAW KEEP THE FILM ON THE EDGE OF ONES SEAT. IF ENJOYED HITCHCOCK'S WRONG MAN AND THE STEEL TRAP WITH JOSEPH COTTON'S STEEL TRAP THIS FILM NOIR IS A MUST.

Les Misrables Goes Film Noir.
Mike Donovan(Barry Sullivan)Ex WW hero and respected bank teller finds 50 thousand is missing from his collection.Thinking nothing of it he goes home to his wife Ruth(Dorothy Malone)who tells him to return to the bank and report it.Mike insists he must have made a mistake,but reports it to his boss.
The bank head counts it and finds the money is indeed missing and everyone suspects Mike of stealing and hes fired.Mike remembers that a strange man Frank thought was a bank examiner had checked the money before he left,but no one believes him.The bank puts Gus Slavin(Charles McGraw)a tough insurance investigator on Mikes trail who relentlessly trails him and Ruth causing them no peace.
Great Film Noir.DONT MISS.



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