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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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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 is unified in its delightfully cheap, pulpy, Monogram style, though in truth it looks pretty good for a poverty row studio like Monogram. Sheldon Leonard is probably the most recognizable face here, and while it's fun to watch him slap people around and take Jean Gillie's breathtaking final putdown, Decoy is far and away Gillie's baby.
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.
Decoys is a 2004 Canadian science fiction horror film directed by Matthew Hastings and written by Tom Berry and Hastings. The cast included Kim Poirier and Nicole Eggert. It was filmed in Ottawa, Ontario and originally broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel. A sequel, Decoys 2: Alien Seduction, was released in 2007.
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 ...
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) robs an armored car and manages to hide the money before he gets arrested, dedicates her life to getting that paper.