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Jul 5, 2022 · "Decoy's Margot Shelby is a femme fatale MVP Ignoring some of the more weird, wacky and disjointed elements of the 1946 film DECOY, you can't help but notice that it's all about Margot Shelby – she's a dame to be reckoned with. Jean Gillie nails it as Margot, making her one of the fiercest ladies in '40s noir.
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 ...
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.
Margot seduces gangster Jim Vincent to get him to engineer the removal of Olins' body from the prison immediately after he dies in the gas chamber. She takes prison doctor Craig away from his nurse/girl friend and gets him to administer an antidote for cyanide gas poisoning. During the removal of Olins' body, the hearse driver is killed by Tommy.
Confessing to the police as she lies dying in her apartment from a gunshot wound, gangster moll Margot recalls how she made a habit of seducing and disposing of men simply to get her hands on the stolen loot hidden by her gangster boyfriend Frankie Olins (Robert Armstrong) on Death Row. Not to be thwarted, Margo seduces fellow gangster Jim ...
Decoy is directed by Jack Bernhard and adapted to screenplay by Nedrick Young from a story written by Stanley Rubin. It stars Jean Gillie, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard and Edward Norris. Music is by Edward J. Kay and cinematography by L. William O’Connell.
Jul 31, 2007 · Product description. 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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