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Decoy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jack Bernhard released in USA on 14 september 1946 with Jean Gillie
Decoy (1946)
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Add to a movie listDecoy is a 1946 American film noir. Directed by Jack Bernhard, the film stars Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, and Sheldon Leonard. The film was produced by Jack Bernhard and Bernard Brandt as a Jack Bernhard Production, with a screenplay by Ned Young, based on an original story by Stanley Rubin
Decoy is a showcase of how film noir can do so much with so little. Short-lived Jean Gillie stars as one of the film genre's toughest femme fatales. Gillie was married to Bernhard when this film was made.
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The story picks up in Margot Shelby's apartment, as she is dying from a gunshot wound. Police detective Joe Portugal arrives at the scene to hear her last moments and possible confession. Margot recounts all the events that lead to Dr. Lloyd Craig shooting her shortly after arriving at her apartment. Via flash-back, we travel back to the beginning:Actors
Jean Gillie
(Margot Shelby)
Robert Armstrong
(Frank Olins)
Edward Norris
(Jim Vincent)
Herbert Rudley
(Dr. Craig)
Sheldon Leonard
(Sergeant Joe Portugal)
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