

The Crooked Way
He's got a date ...with DEATH!
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
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- Released
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- Language
- English
- amnesia
- war veteran
- gangster
- crime boss
- film noir
- gun battle
- los angeles, california
- war hero
- post world war ii
- framed for murder
- veterans hospital
- murdered cop
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- TheatricalNR22 Apr 1949
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The Crooked Way was released on 22 April 1949.
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John Chard
3/24/2014
Organic Shrapnel In The Head. The Crooked Way is directed by Robert Florey and adapted to screenplay by Richard H. Landau from the Radio Play “No Blade Too Sharp” by Robert Monroe. It stars John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Harry Bronson and Hal Baylor. Music is by Louis Forbes and cinematography by John Alton. World War II veteran Eddie Rice (Payne) is suffering from permanent amnesia after…
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