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Walk a Crooked Mile

Name: Walk a Crooked Mile
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1948-09-02
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 6.2

★ 6,2 /10 (24 Votes)

1948 EN 91 min

Overview

A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?

Release date

02/09/1948

Votes

Popularity

1.2

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Genres

Crime Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

91 min

Louis Hayward

Philip 'Scotty' Grayson

Dennis O'Keefe

Daniel F. O'Hara

Louise Allbritton

Dr. Anastasia 'Toni' Neva

Carl Esmond

Dr. Ritter von Stolb

Onslow Stevens

Igor Braun

Raymond Burr

Krebs

Art Baker

Dr. Frederick Townsend

Lowell Gilmore

Dr. William Forrest

Philip Van Zandt

Anton Radchek

Charles Evans

Dr. Homer Allen

Frank Ferguson

Carl Bemish

Reed Hadley

Narrator (voice)

Ray Teal

Police Sergeant

William Tannen

FBI Chemist

Gale Storm

Voice on Tape Recorder

Arthur Space

Mr. North

Tamara Shayne

Mrs. Ecko, the Landlady

Keith Richards

FBI Agent Miller

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Grandon Rhodes

Adolph Mizner

Steve Pendleton

Police Detective Gaines

Howard Negley

Feodore

Jimmy Lloyd

FBI Agent Alison

Myron Healey

FBI Agent Thompson

John Hamilton

G.W. Hunter

Paul Bryar

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Fred Coby

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Bert Davidson

Marten Lamont

Lee Phelps

Suzanne Ridgway

Arthur Tovey

Crane Whitley

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Laundry and Liquidation. Walk a Crooked Mile is directed by Gordon Douglas and adapted to screenplay by George Bruce from a Bertram Millhauser story. It stars Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Albritton, Carl Esmond, Onslow Stevens and Raymond Burr. Music is by Paul Sawtell and cinematography by George Robinson. A Scotland Yard detective and a FBI agent investigate what looks to be a spy ring infiltrating a top secret Nuclear Physics centre. To fully get the drift you really have to understand the era when films like this were produced, a time of The HUAC and Cold War paranoia, wh…

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Despite a decent effort from Louis Hayward as visiting Scotland Yard Inspector "Grayson", this is still a pretty clunky, charm-free, cold war espionage story that sees him team up with FBI counterpart "O'Hara" (Dennis O'Keefe) to investigate the smuggling of top secret formulae from a government facility to an enemy.... Their method of transferring the information is quite clever, but neither the script, nor the rather over-powering Reed Hadley narration really get this going. It has an almost documentary feel to it; the scenes are stitched together rather than fluid, and it comes across almos…

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