Shakedown

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

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1950 / 80min.

Rating6.1

Genres

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Rock Hudson

Brian Donlevy

Bruce Bennett

Lawrence Tierney

Howard Duff

Anne Vernon

Peggie Castle

Chester Conklin

Bess Flowers

Joseph Pevney

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