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03/09/1948 Drama, Crime 1h 29m
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THEY MADE THEIR OWN RULES... and played for keeps!

Overview

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.

  1. George Sherman

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. John Payne

    Rick Mason

  2. Joan Caulfield

    Deborah Owens Clark

  3. Dan Duryea

    Silky Randall

  4. Shelley Winters

    Tory

  5. Dorothy Hart

    Madeline

  6. Richard Rober

    Max

  7. Dan O'Herlihy

    Duke

  8. Nicholas Joy

    Walter Vanderline

  9. Percy Helton

    Charlie Jordan

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-09
Poor old war widow "Deb" (Joan Caulfield) is hoodwinked into donating her savings to build a memorial to her late husband by the sharp "Rick" (John Payne). It turns out that there is no such edifice, but "Rick" isn't able to be quite as cold and calculating as usual. He starts to fall for this dignified and respectable woman. That's a risky scenario, for his boss "Silky" (Dan Duryea) just wants the cash, and that's that. It doesn't help either that his bosses gal "Tory" (Shelley Winters) is pretty flaky, also quite keen on "Rick" and is quite shrewd at manipulation, too! Payne was never exactl...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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