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Red Light

Name: Red Light
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: 1949-09-30
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 5.917

★ 5,9 /10 (24 Votes)

1949 EN 83 min

Overview

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

Stream

Release date

30/09/1949

Votes

Popularity

0.5

THERE'S TROUBLE AHEAD!

Genres

Thriller Crime

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

83 min

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George Raft

Johnny Torno

Virginia Mayo

Carla North

Gene Lockhart

Warni Hazard

Raymond Burr

Nick Cherney

Harry Morgan

Rocky

Barton MacLane

Detective Strecker

Arthur Franz

Fr. Jess Torno

Ken Murray

Stanley Clements

Carlson Hotel Bellhop

William Frawley

Hotel Night Clerk

Arthur Shields

Father Redmond

Frank Orth

Wallace 'Wally' Stoner

Phillip Pine

Pablo Cabrillo

William Phillips

Det. Jim Ryan

Movita

Trina (uncredited)

Victor Sen Yung

Vincent (uncredited)

Claire Carleton

Waitress (uncredited)

Leonard Bremen

Bookie (uncredited)

No photo

Bill Cartledge

Elevator Operator (uncredited)

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Robert Espinoza

Miguel (uncredited)

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Charles Ferguson

Reporter at Airport (uncredited)

Paul Frees

Bellhop (uncredited)

Mack Gray

Bookie (uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

Detective Arresting Nick (uncredited)

Al Hill

Burt (uncredited)

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Bob Jellison

Man in Hotel Room (uncredited)

Soledad Jiménez

Pablo's Mother (uncredited)

Phyllis Kennedy

Chambermaid (uncredited)

Joe Kirk

Reporter in Newsreel (uncredited)

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David Leonard

Man Reading Bible (uncredited)

Knox Manning

Newsreel Commentator (voice) (uncredited)

Edwin Max

Bert Adams (uncredited)

Sol Murgi

Convict (uncredited)

Simon Oakland

Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Jack Overman

Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

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Bob Perry

Red's Helper (uncredited)

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Brick Sullivan

Red (uncredited)

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John Wald

Reporter at Airport (uncredited)

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Army Chaplain Slain! Red Light is directed by Roy Del Ruth and adapted to screenplay by George Callahan from the story This Guy Gideon written by Don Barry. It stars George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr, Harry Morgan and Gene Lockhart. Music is by Dimitri Tiomkin and cinematography by Bert Glennon. Something of an oddity, Red Light finds George Raft up to his neck in religion, revenge and a smouldering Virginia Mayo. After his brother, a chaplain, is murdered, he sets off to find the killer, whom can be identified by a message scrawled in a Gideon Bible. Find the Bible, find the kill…

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This is quite an intriguing crime noir, with George Raft as the owner of a trucking company out to avenge the murder of his brother - a priest. We know from the start who is responsible for the crime, so the film provides us with a front row seat as he sets about tracking down the culprit. It's quite a thoughtful story, a bit more sophisticated that your run of the mill vengeance tale. Raft plays his part well enough (he is a bit wooden at times), as do Virginia Mayo and Raymond Burr helping to build up quite a decent degree of tension, and when Raft ("Torno") does eventually discover what hap…

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