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Johnny Allegro is a american film of genre Drama directed by Earl Bellamy released in USA on 26 may 1949 with George Raft
Johnny Allegro (1949)
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Add to a movie listJohnny Allegro is a black and white 1949 American film noir, starring George Raft, Nina Foch, Will Geer, and George Macready. An ex-gangster (Raft) working as a federal agent runs afoul of a crime lord (Macready) who enjoys hunting humans for sport. The picture was directed by Ted Tetzlaff and produced by Columbia Pictures.
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Johnny Allegro (George Raft) is a former mobster who has gone over to the other side and now works for the U.S. Treasury Department as an undercover agent. Allegro is asked to help get the goods on Morgan Vallin (George MacReady), a polished counterfeiter who is involved in a right-wing plot to bring down the American government by flooding the U.S. economy with bogus currency.Actors
George Raft
(Johnny Allegro)
Nina Foch
(Glenda Chapman)
George Macready
(Morgan Vallin)
Will Geer
(Schultzy)
Gloria Henry
(Addie)
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