The Crooked Way
Summary:
Postwar films were festooned with amnesiac ex-GIs who found themselves mixed up with crime. In The Crooked Way, John Payne plays memory-deficient veteran Eddie Rice, who runs afoul of mobster Vince Alexander (Sonny Tufts) and police inspector Lt. Williams (Rhys Williams). Both the crooks and the cops seem to have good reason to despise Rice, and he'd like to find out why. He ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
John Payne - (Eddie Rice)
Sonny Tufts - (Vince Alexander)
Ellen Drew - (Nina)
Rhys Williams - (Lt. Williams)
Percy Helton - (Petey)
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Review:
While not as good as the similar Somewhere in the Night, The Crooked Way is still a very satisfying, if flawed, film noir. Crooked's set-up is familiar, not just from Somewhere in the Night, as it deals with that special kind of amnesia that really exists only in films and television. It's a device, and a clichéd one, but it's ef... Continue >>
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