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1949. 1 hr 36 min. Manhandled is a classic film noir from 1949 directed by Lewis R. Foster, and starring the talented Dorothy Lamour and Sterling Hayden. The film tells the story of a hardboiled detective, Dan O'Mara (Hayden), who becomes suspicious of a beautiful and enigmatic woman, Merl Kramer (Lamour), who might be involved in murder.
In the purest of noir, but also in its most impure forms such as exposed in the snaky plot of Manhandled (1949), viewers find themselves in an America where their moral bearings are more like ball bearings— rolling free. For the duration of the movie, the national States-dwellers of the late 1940s could allow themselves to side with amoral ...
Manhandled is a film directed by Lewis R. Foster with Dan Duryea, Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Irene Hervey .... Year: 1949. Original title: Manhandled. Synopsis: Merl Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merl mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients ...
Jul 16, 2023 · Manhandled (1949) Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels.
The secretary to a phony psychiatrist finds herself caught up in the murder of a patient’s wife and realizes that her life is also in danger.
Manhandled is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Lewis R. Foster and starring Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden and Dan Duryea. It is based on the 1945 novel The Man Who Stole a Dream by L. S. Goldsmith.
