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Johnny Eager is a 1941 American film noir directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Robert Taylor, Lana Turner and Van Heflin. Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film was one of many spoofed in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982).
Johnny Eager: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin. The step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.
The step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned. Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is working as a taxi driver.
After Johnny Eager (Robert Taylor) is released from jail, the unreformed gangster fools his parole officer (Henry O'Neill) into believing his ways are changed.
- Crime, Drama
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Johnny Eager (1941) is a delightful and fast-moving early period classic film noir, starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner as two compromised and heartless individuals working against their better natures as they slide fatefully into separate dooms.
Oct 24, 2003 · Paroled gangster Johnny Eager pretends to be an honest taxi driver, but actually runs a large gambling racket. Leaving the office of his parole officer, Mr. Burns, Johnny encounters society girl Lisbeth Bard.
In an astonishingly explicit depiction of gay adoration for 1941, Van Heflin plays Jeff Hartnett, Eager’s closest friend and longtime admirer who drinks himself into oblivion while dreaming of a day when they can run away together to the Rocky Mountains.
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Sep 22, 2021 · In Johnny Eager, the title character played by Robert Taylor is a smooth-talking ex-con. While he’s daylighting as a reformed taxi driver, Johnny is still up to his old racketeering...
