The Crooked Way
He's got a date ...with DEATH!
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4/22/1949Runtime
90 minsOverview
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
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A disoriented war veteran navigates the dangerous Los Angeles underworld trying to piece together a past he can't remember, only to find that forgetting may have been a mercy. The film wraps noir atmosphere and existential dread around the simple horror of not knowing who you are.
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John Payne
Eddie Rice / Eddie Riccardi
Sonny Tufts
Vince Alexander
Ellen Drew
Nina Martin
Rhys Williams
Lieutenant Joe Williams
Percy Helton
Petey
John Doucette
Sgt. Barrett
Charles Evans
Captain Anderson (as Charlie Evans)
Greta Granstedt
Hazel Downs
Raymond Largay
Arthur Stacey, M.D.
Harry Bronson
Danny
Hal Baylor
Coke (as Hal Fieberling)
Don Haggerty
Hood
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