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The Crooked Way is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Florey released in USA on 22 april 1949 with John Payne
The Crooked Way (1949)
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Add to a movie listThe Crooked Way is a 1949 black-and-white film noir directed by Robert Florey. The film was based on a radio play No Blade Too Sharp and features John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, and others. The film, with a similar plot (a war hero loses his memory stateside) to another film noir Somewhere in the Night, was shot by cameraman John Alton.
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After sustaining a head wound in combat, decorated World War II veteran Eddie Rice (John Payne) is treated at a San Francisco military hospital for a permanent form of amnesia. This leaves him with no knowledge of his life, family and friends prior to his enlistment, a void that the army intelligence unit was unable to fill as they couldn't find any information about him, other than the fact he enlisted in Los Angeles. Doctors tell him that no medical cure exists for his case, but that if he returns to Los Angeles he might run into people who know him and could help him fill in the blanks.Actors
John Payne
(Eddie Rice / Eddie Riccardi)
Sonny Tufts
(Vince Alexander)
Ellen Drew
(Nina Martin)
Rhys Williams
(Lieutenant Joe Williams)
Percy Helton
(Petey)
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