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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]
- Jack Bernhard, Bernard Brandt
- Edward J. Kay
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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- Jack Bernhard
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- Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong
Movie Title/Year and Scene Descriptions: Screenshots: Decoy (1946) Director Jack Bernhard's little-known cult B-film noir from Monogram featured one of the most ruthless, greedy, mean and hard-hearted, deceitful and manipulative femmes fatales in noir history. Social-climbing seductress Margot Shelby (British actress Jean Gillie) was capable of ...
Play Trailer. She Treats Men the Way They've Been Treating Women for Years! Overview. A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies. Jack Bernhard. Director. Nedrick Young. Screenplay.
Decoy (1946) is a low budget, cheaply plotted film noir thriller and shocker, premised on an idea that has elements in common with horror, as it re-animates a dead con in a miraculous escape from death row. The source of the drama is easily stressed -- it's a box with $400,000 in it, the proceeds of a robbery.
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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.
Not to be thwarted, Margo seduces fellow gangster Jim Vincent (Edward Norris) into helping her steal Olins’ dead body fresh from his execution by hydrogen cyanide gas and revive him later through some medical intervention performed by Dr. Lloyd Craig (Herbert Rudley) that’s never quite explained.
