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The Bribe is a 1949 American film noir directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Marguerite Roberts, based on a story written by Frederick Nebel. The drama features Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, and Vincent Price.
- $1,984,000
- Pandro S. Berman
The Bribe: Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, Vincente Minnelli. With Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price. Federal agent Rigby, in Central America to trace stolen plane engines, falls for the gorgeous wife of the chief suspect.
- (2.1K)
- Robert Z. Leonard, Vincente Minnelli
- Approved
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Federal agent Rigby (Robert Taylor) travels to a Central American island to investigate stolen war surplus. Suspicion falls on veteran Tugwell Hintten (John Hodiak) and his alluring singer wife ...
- (89)
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Crime, Drama
- Robert Taylor
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Undercover as a tourist on a fishing holiday, FBI agent Rigby is in Carlotta off the west coast of Central America on a case to discover the people behind an illegal operation of selling American fighter jet engines in South America, the masterminds having infiltrated a war surplus program.
Film Details. Based on the short story "The Bribe" by Frederick Nebel in Hearst's-International Cosmopolitan (Sep 1947). Rigby, a government agent investigating an arms surplus racket on the Central American fishing island of Los Trancos, falls in love with one of his suspects, café singer Elizabeth Hintten.
- Robert Z. Leonard, Bert Glazer
- Robert Taylor
The Bribe, 1949 – Heart Of Noir. 2nd tier. Editor's Ranking. 4.0. Average User Rating. Your Watchlist. 1949. USA. 98 minutes. MGM. Cast + Crew. Robert Z. Leonard. Pandro S. Berman. Marguerite Roberts. Frederick Nebel (short story) Joseph Ruttenberg. Miklós Rózsa. Malcolm Brown, Cedric Gibbons. Gene Ruggiero.