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Decoy is a 1946 American film noir starring Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, and Sheldon Leonard. Directed by Jack Bernhard, it was produced by him and Bernard Brandt as a Jack Bernhard Production, with a screenplay by Nedrick Young based on an original story by Stanley Rubin. [1]
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Wondering aloud how most effectively to deploy her beauty for personal gain, femme fatale Margot Shelby, played by Jean Gillie (who died of pneumonia a few years later), serves as the evil core of Jack Bernhard’s Decoy, one of the more notable (and strange) productions of one of the poorest of Poverty Row studios, Monogram Pictures.
Decoy: Directed by Jack Bernhard. With Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley. A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Jack Bernhard
- 1946-09-14
Decoy. A dying female gangster tells how she revived an executed killer from a gas chamber to find out where he hid a stolen fortune.
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- Jack Bernhard
- Mystery & Thriller
- Jean Gillie
Production. In July 1946, the Los Angeles Times reported that B&B Pictures bought the rights to John W. Stearn's novel Violence. Jack Bernhard planned on traveling to Chicago to talk with Stearn about the film and then on to New York to persuade Melville Cooper to star in it.
Jul 5, 2022 · The film was produced by Jack Bernhard and Bernard Brandt as a Jack Bernhard Production, with a screenplay by Nedrick Young, based on an original story by Stanley Rubin. Jean Gillie, who starred in the femme fatale role, was married to Bernhard when this film was made.
