Red Light

Red Light

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  • Genre: Thriller, Crime
  • Release Date: 1949-09-30
  • Runtime: 83 minutes
  • : 5.5
  • Production Company: Roy Del Ruth Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
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5.5/10
5.5
From 20 Ratings

Description

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

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Reviews

  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    This is quite an intriguing crime noir, with George Raft as the owner of a trucking company out to avenge the murder of his brother - a priest. We know from the start who is responsible for the crime, so the film provides us with a front row seat as he sets about tracking down the culprit. It's quite a thoughtful story, a bit more sophisticated that your run of the mill vengeance tale. Raft plays his part well enough (he is a bit wooden at times), as do Virginia Mayo and Raymond Burr helping to build up quite a decent degree of tension, and when Raft ("Torno") does eventually discover what happened that night, he must reconcile the last wishes of his brother with his own visceral desire for revenge... The staging is a little too theatrical, Raft often paces from spot to spot as if he were following cues on stage, but the lighting and storm effects at the end contribute to the overall atmosphere of the drama, and it has a suitably striking conclusion.

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