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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]
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
Suffering from a fatal gunshot wound, Dr. Lloyd Craig struggles to Margot Shelby's apartment and shoots her before dying himself. While she is dying, Margot recounts for police detective Joe Portugal the events that led to her shooting: After Margot's boyfriend, Frankie Olins, hides the $400,000 he stole in a bank robbery, he is arrested.
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. Gangster Frank Olins is to die in the gas chamber much to the dismay of his girlfriend Margot Shelby as he is carrying the secret of the location of $400,000 with him.
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A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.
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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 ...
