Johnny Allegro
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Directed by | Ted Tetzlaff |
Produced by | Irving Starr |
Written by | Guy Endore Karen DeWolf James Edward Grant |
Starring | George Raft |
Music by | George Duning |
Cinematography | Joseph F. Biroc |
Edited by | Jerome Thoms |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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80 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Johnny Allegro is a black and white 1949 American film noir, starring George Raft, Nina Foch, Will Geer, and George Macready. An ex-gangster (Raft) working as a federal agent runs afoul of a crime lord (Macready) who enjoys hunting humans for sport. The picture was directed by Ted Tetzlaff and produced by Columbia Pictures.[1]
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Plot summary
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Johnny Allegro (George Raft) is a former mobster who has gone over to the other side and now works for the U.S. Treasury Department as an undercover agent. Allegro is asked to help get the goods on Morgan Vallin (George MacReady), a polished counterfeiter who is involved in a right-wing plot to bring down the American government by flooding the U.S. economy with bogus currency.[2]
Cast
- George Raft as Johnny Allegro
- Nina Foch as Glenda Chapman
- George Macready as Morgan Vallin
- Will Geer as Schultzy
- Gloria Henry as Addie
- Ivan Triesault as Pelham Vetch
- Harry Antrim as Pudgy
- William 'Bill' Phillips as Roy
References
- ↑ Everett Aaker. The Films of George Raft, McFarland & Company, 2013, pg 138.
- ↑ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/johnny-allegro-v97258
External links
- Johnny Allegro at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Johnny Allegro at IMDb
- Johnny Allegro at AllMovie
- Johnny Allegro at the TCM Movie Database
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