

99 River Street
Rips into you like a double-crossing Dame!
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
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- English
- taxi driver
- film noir
- ex-boxer
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)NRLos Angeles, California21 Aug 1953
- Theatrical11 Sept 1953
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- TheatricalU1 Apr 1954
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99 River Street was released on 21 August 1953.
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2- J8/10
John Chard
11/2/2013
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 ha…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/23/2022
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 m…
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