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1946's Decoy is a fascinating noir, directed by Jack Bernhard, whose intention it was to showcase his wife, Jean Gille, for American audiences. Gille had worked since 1935 in British films. Unfortunately, two things happened to railroad Gille's career - she and Bernhard divorced, and then she died of pneumonia three years after this film was made.
Decoy (1946) Decoy (1946) Decoy (1946) Decoy (1946) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis A dying female gangster tells how she revived an executed killer from a gas chamber to find out where he ...
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Decoy (1946) Decoy (1946) is a low budget, cheaply plotted film noir thriller and shocker, premised on an idea that has elements in common with horror, as it re-animates a dead con in a miraculous escape from death row. The source of the drama is easily stressed -- it's a box with $400,000 in it, the proceeds of a robbery.
Jul 31, 2007 · CRIME WAVE/DECOY - DVD Movie. Amazon.com. Decoy (1946) is an ultra-low-budget offering from Monogram Pictures and a fascinatingly mixed bag of Poverty Row production values and flashes of directorial ambition (one night scene in a woods strongly suggests director Jack Bernhard had seen Sunrise).
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Difficult to find on home video for many years, Jack Bernhard's Decoy (1946) stands as a highly off-beat film noir in which Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie) plays...
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Review by sakana1 ★★★½ 14. Decoy is a bare-knuckle boxing match that pits one woman against all of the men, and she lays them down, one at a time, without even breaking a sweat. Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie) is the most fatale of all of the femmes, a woman who, the moment her older, gangster boyfriend (Robert Armstrong as Frankie Olins ...
