Railroaded! Page #5

Synopsis: Sexy beautician Clara Calhoun, who has a bookie operation in her back room, connives with her boyfriend, mob collector Duke Martin, to stage a robbery of the day's take. But the caper turns violent; a cop and Duke's partner are shot; and Duke arranges for innocent Steve Ryan, owner of the car they stole, to be framed. At first homicide detective Mickey Ferguson thinks Steve is guilty, despite his attraction to Steve's sister Rosie. And the suave but ruthless Duke won't hesitate to keep it that way with more of his perfumed bullets...
Director(s): Anthony Mann
Production: Eagle-Lion
 
IMDB:
6.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
APPROVED
Year:
1947
72 min
78 Views


aren't you forgetting I'm out on bail

okay thanks

what you do with the gun Ryan don't know

anything about any gun five thousand

bucks is a lot of dough how'd you get

rid of it

spent a thousand on beer both bubblegum

was arrested take it easy Stu we're not

playing games you know kid yeah not much

you think it's a joke to kill a man no

not even a cop the like cops

oh sure I'm getting real attached to you

guys how long did you know in Kowalski

that guys lying in his teeth was lying

die yeah

now you'll never know

I can never tell you who it was he told

us how it was to lie he was lying why

why should he lie he was badly hurting

you ran out on him no wonder he squealed

but I didn't you all about Kowalski

I know Kerry since we were kids it was

always no good hanging around always

hanging around lately gets the idea the

rosies his girl keeps bothering him

pastoring her I told him to go away well

was it you saw him last that is before

you pulled a stick-up I didn't pull any

stick-up

like before like he came around asking

for Rosie she told him to stay away I

told him again he got tough so I laid a

couple on him fine I've been waiting for

this we've had thousands of suspects in

here and every one of them has been

framed according to them but what else

how he hated my guts pulls out well

don't tell us again what you did last

night kid got through work shortly after

6:
00 parked the truck in the alley back

of the line I walked home wet in the

house mom and sister out of the show but

out worked in my shop till after 9:00

anybody come around when you're in the

shop any of the neighbors yeah we know

we checked with the neighbors none of

them could say they saw you all right

now I'll tell you what happened you

swiped your own truck from behind the

laundry you picked up Kowalski you

pulled the stick-up you didn't figure on

a cop butting in your shadow Hera you

made your getaway your partner was badly

hurt and you left him in the truck

outside the doctor's office you ditched

the money in the gun and then he went

home and that was your little program

last night how'd you guess it and don't

you think I was awful sharp I used my

own truck and my navy scarf with my

initials on it then I've set at home

eating beans when you guys come in to

pick me up how dumb do you think I am

awful dumb are awful smart maybe so

smart you figured to make it so obvious

it was you would automatically eliminate

you because we couldn't believe that

anybody could be so stupid look I want a

confession but I don't want a confession

that'll be thrown out of court and foul

up this case and let this monkey off

with a couple of years only the gas

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John C. Higgins

John C. Higgins (April 28, 1908 – July 2, 1995) was an American screenwriter. During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Winnipeg, Canada-born scribe worked on mostly complex murder mystery films, including the Spencer Tracy film Murder Man (1935). During the late 1940s, Higgins continued to pen thrillers, including semidocumentary-style films, including director Anthony Mann's He Walked By Night, Raw Deal, T-Men and Border Incident. Higgins also wrote horror films like the Basil Rathbone starrer The Black Sleep (1956) and Higgins last film Daughters of Satan (1972). Higgins also wrote the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) and the adventure film Impasse (1969). more…

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