John Payne
Eddie Rice/Eddie Riccardi
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The Crooked Way. The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir starring John Payne, Sonny Tufts and Ellen Drew. Directed by Robert Florey and shot by John Alton, the film has a similar plot (a war hero loses his memory from a combat wound) to another film noir Somewhere in the Night .
The Crooked Way: Directed by Robert Florey. With John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams. War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Robert Florey
- 1949-04-22
The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Florey and starring John Payne, Sonny Tufts and Ellen Drew. The film, with a simil...
- 86 min
- 207K
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The Crooked Way. An amnesiac veteran (John Payne) discovers he was a gangster and that the partner (Sonny Tufts) he cheated is after him. Rent The Crooked Way on Fandango at Home, or buy it on ...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Crime, Drama
- Robert Florey
The Crooked Way was derived from a radio program called "High Adventure" which was broadcast on the Mutual network during 1947-1948 and based on the episode "No Blade Too Sharp" by Robert Monroe; Richard H. Landau (The Quatermass Xperiment, 1955) adapted it for the screen. During the pre-production stage, both Shelley Winters and Jeanne Cagney ...
- Robert Florey, Horace Hough
- John Payne
The Crooked Way is directed by Robert Florey and adapted to screenplay by Richard H. Landau from the Radio Play "No Blade Too Sharp" by Robert Monroe. It stars John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Harry Bronson and Hal Baylor. Music is by Louis Forbes and cinematography by John Alton.
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Synopsis. After his release from the war amnesiac and Silver-star awarded Eddie Rice (John Payne) returns to his last address Los Angeles to find out more about his past. No sooner does he hit town he is confronted by Police Lieutenant Joe Williams (Rhys Williams) who tells Eddie he is none other than Eddie Riccardi, a local gangster who ...
