The Threat (1949)
Release Date: Dec 1, 1949 Limited
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Homicidal criminal Charles McGraw busts out of jail, kidnapping the three people responsible for his incarceration. The hapless hostages include detective Michael O'Shea, district attorney Frank Conroy, and nightclub singer Virginia Grey. McGraw makes no secret of his plans to kill O'Shea and Conroy once he has successfully made a getaway; he has other plans for Grey, however, and for a while it seems as though she'll willingly play along with him. The cat-and-mouse game reaches its peak of
Dec 1, 1949 Limited
RKO Radio Pictures
Cast
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Michael O'Shea
Williams -
Virginia Grey
Carol -
Charles McGraw
Kluger -
Julie Bishop
Ann -
Frank Conroy
Mac -
Robert Shayne
Murphy -
Anthony Caruso
Nick -
Don McGuire
Joe Turner -
Frank Richards
Lefty -
Michael McHale
Jensen -
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... opens with a rat-a-tat energy, quite literally: a prison break, a whining siren, and then the almost unbroken blasts of machine gun fire...
'Kluger's out!' -- Those are the first words spoken, and they convey a sense of urgency that is pretty much sustained throughout the economical 66-minute running time of this taut deadline thriller
Plenty of tough action.
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Foreign Titles
- The Threat (1949) (DE)
- The Threat (1949) (UK)
