

Shakedown
His camera Was More Deadly Than A Gangster's Gun!
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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- Language
- English
- infidelity
- robbery
- san francisco, california
- photographer
- gangster
- despair
- blackmail
- seduction
- opportunist
- film noir
- murder
- mobster
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR1 Sept 1950
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG31 Oct 1950
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Shakedown was released on 1 September 1950.
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CinemaSerf
1/3/2024
Talk about hoist by your own petard! "Jack" (Howard Duff) is an aspiring photo-journalist who manages to get newspaper editor "David" (Bruce Bennett) to take him on for a week. His next task is to stay employed, and to that end he manages to convince "Nick" (Brian Donlevy) - a local "businessman", to pose for a front page photo. This latter man takes a bit of a shine to "Jack" and gives him an opportunity to put away…
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