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A Dangerous Profession is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 10 december 1949 with George Raft

A Dangerous Profession (1949)

A Dangerous Profession
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Released in USA 10 december 1949
Length 1h19
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating59% 2.998542.998542.998542.998542.99854

A Dangerous Profession is a 1949 American film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff, written by Warren Duff and Martin Rackin, and starring George Raft, Ella Raines, and Pat O'Brien. The supporting cast features Jim Backus.



^ "A Dangerous Profession: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 13, 2014.

^ A Dangerous Profession at the Internet Movie Database.

^ Everett Aaker, The Films of George Raft, McFarland & Company, 2013 p 143-144

Synopsis

The story begins as Police Lt. Nick Ferrone (Jim Backus) explains what bail bonds-men do and tells the viewers the setting is Los Angeles, California. One such man is Vince Kane (George Raft), a former cop. When one of his customers, Claude Brackett (Bill Williams), is murdered, Kane decides to investigate. He has two reasons for investigating: the curiosity of a former cop and it seems that he has fallen in love with Brackett's widow Lucy, an old flame.

Actors

George Raft

(Vince Kane)Ella Raines

(Lucy Brackett)Pat O'Brien

(Joe Farley)Bill Williams

(Claude Brackett)Jim Backus

(Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator)
And :
Roland Winters
Robert Gist
David Bauer
David Wolfe
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