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Johnny Eager is a american film of genre Drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy released in USA on 17 january 1942 with Robert Taylor
Johnny Eager (1942)
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Add to a movie listJohnny Eager is a 1941 film noir directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Robert Taylor, Lana Turner and Van Heflin. Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film was one of many spoofed in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982).
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Johnny Eager (Robert Taylor) masquerades as a taxi driver for his gullible parole officer, A. J. Verne (Henry O'Neill), but in reality, he is the ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate. Verne introduces him to socialite Lisbeth "Liz" Bard (Lana Turner), a sociology student. Johnny and Liz are attracted to each other, but then he discovers that she is the stepdaughter of his longtime nemesis, John Benson Farrell (Edward Arnold). As a crusading prosecutor, Farrell was responsible for sending Johnny to prison, and now as the district attorney, he has gotten an injunction preventing Johnny's expensive dog racing track from opening.Actors
Robert Taylor
(Johnny Eager)
Lana Turner
(Lisbeth 'Liz' Bard)
Edward Arnold
(John Benson Farrell)
Van Heflin
(Jeff Hartnett)
Robert Sterling
(Jimmy Courtney)
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