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Release Date: 1950-09-01
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TMDB Rating: 6.4/10 from 24 votes on TMDB
That is a solidly middle-of-the-pack score among 1950 Crime films on TMDB.
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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.
Tagline:His camera Was More Deadly Than A Gangster's Gun!
Genres: Crime|
Drama|
Thriller|
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Release Date: 1950-09-01
Movie Revenue: $0
Movie Runtime: 80
Language: English
Shakedown was released on 1 September 1950. It is a Crime, Drama, Thriller film with a running time of 80 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Filmoria has been tracking Shakedown since its release, keeping this page updated with the latest cast, trailer and streaming details.
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Talk about hoist by your own petard! "Jack" (Howard Duff) is an aspiring photo-journalist who manages to get newspaper editor "David" (Bruce Bennett) to take him on for a week. His next task is to stay employed, and to that end he manages to convince "Nick" (Brian Donlevy) - a local "businessman", to pose for a front page photo. This latter man takes a bit of a shine to "Jack" and gives him an opportunity to put away one of his criminal competitors "Colton" (Lawrence Tierney). There's a few grand in it for him, but he gets greedy - he keeps the negative of a shot he takes after a robbery, and submits a less definitive photo to his boss. Next he blackmails "Colton" for $25,000 else the real negative will end up with his paper and the police! What now ensues sees him try to play both men off each other whilst irritating his loved-up editor all as he rather cruelly plays with the affections of his sponsor at the newspaper "Ellen" (Peggy Dow) and tries the same with the wife of "Nick" - the considerably more savvy "Nita" (Anne Vernon) before his house of cards starts to look distinctly shaky! This benefits from a tightly knit cast with a solid story and some decent dialogue - and from guy that it's fairly easy to dislike! It's well paced and ends with an appropriate wise-crack that rather sums up "Jack" nicely.
Review via The Movie Database (TMDB)
