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99 River Street

Name: 99 River Street
Genre: Crime
Released: 1953-08-21
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 6.796

★ 6,8 /10 (81 Votes)

1953 EN 83 min

Overview

A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

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Release date

21/08/1953

Votes

Popularity

1.2

Rips into you like a double-crossing Dame!

Genres

Crime

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

83 min

John Payne

Ernie Driscoll

Evelyn Keyes

Linda James

Brad Dexter

Victor Rawlins

Frank Faylen

Stan Hogan

Peggie Castle

Pauline Driscoll

Jay Adler

Christopher

Jack Lambert

Mickey

Glenn Langan

Lloyd Morgan

Eddy Waller

Pop Durkee

John Daheim

Bud

Ian Wolfe

Waldo Daggett

Peter Leeds

Nat Finley

William Tannen

Director

Gene Reynolds

Chuck

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Ric Roman

Monk

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Vivi Janiss

Edna

Hal Baylor

Paul Bryar

(uncredited)

Claire Carleton

G. Pat Collins

Sayre Dearing

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Tom Greenway

Harry Hines

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John Indrisano

Helen Kleeb

Joey Ray

Dick Rich

Michael Ross

Frank J. Scannell

Arthur Tovey

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John Wald

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Keep your theatre and the rats in it. 99 River Street is directed by Phil Karlson and adapted to screenplay by Robert Smith from a story by George Zuckerman. It stars John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, Jay Adler, Eddie Waller and Peggie Castle. Music is by Arthur Lange and Emil Newman and cinematography by Franz Planer. After sustaining a serious eye injury, boxer Ernie Driscoll (Payne) has had to retire from the ring and now drives a cab for a living. Constantly chided by his beautiful wife, Pauline (Castle), for being a failure, Ernie is close to breaking point when h…

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Like so many boxers before him, "Ernie" (John Payne) discovers that wealth and fame are fickle things. He loses an heavyweight fight and is soon driving a taxi to make ends meet. This does not sit well with his selfish and pretty nasty wife "Pauline" (Peggie Castle) who strays into the affections of the unsavoury "Rawlins" (Brad Dexter) with ultimately fatal results. "Ernie" finds himself suspect number one, and so must now try to piece together just what did happen and to stay one step ahead of the pursuing police just long enough to apprehend the real perpetrator. In my view, this is easily …

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