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Cornered is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edward Dmytryk released in USA on 25 december 1945 with Dick Powell
Cornered (1945)
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Add to a movie listCornered is a 1945 film noir starring Dick Powell and directed by Edward Dmytryk. This is the second teaming of Powell and Dmytryk (after Murder, My Sweet). Many scenes shot by cinematographer Harry J. Wild and Dmytryk stand out as classic film noir. The screenplay was written by John Paxton with uncredited help from Ben Hecht.
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After the end of World War II, a former P.O.W., Canadian RCAF flyer Laurence Gerard (Powell), returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of his bride of only 20 days, a member of the French Resistance. His father-in-law Etienne Rougon identifies Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac. He supposedly died in 1943, but Rougon has strong doubts. Jarnac was so careful about maintaining his anonymity, there is not even a description of him on record. Gerard finds the partially burned front page of a dossier on Jarnac and an envelope addressed to Madame Jarnac in the rubble of the home of Jarnac's closest associate. The return address on the envelope indirectly allows Gerard to track the widow to Buenos Aires, Argentina.Actors
Dick Powell
(Laurence Gerard)
Walter Slezak
(Melchior Incza)
Morris Carnovsky
(Manuel Satana)
Steven Geray
(Señor Tomas Camargo)
Micheline Cheirel
(Mme. Madeleine Jarnac(Laurent))
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