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Release year: 1950

Storyline

An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.

Top credits

Directors

Joseph M. Newman

Writers

Cast

Edmond O'Brien — Mal Granger
Joanne Dru — Gail Mason
Otto Kruger — Carl Stephans
Barry Kelley — Vince Walters

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Did you know

• "Boulder Dam" is actually Hoover Dam. Congress authorized the Boulder Canyon Dam Project in 1931 and, it being traditional to name big federal dam projects after the sitting President, named it Hoover Dam. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in 1932 but could not officially change the name set by Congress. Harold Ickes (FDR's Interior Secretary), however, issued a memo directing that his employees " . . . will refer to the dam as 'Boulder Dam' in this pamphlet as well as in correspondence and other references . . . ". In 1947, after Roosevelt and Ickes had died, Congress passed a resolution to "restore" the name of Hoover Dam. Until that time, however, all official, tourist and other promotional materials called it "Boulder Dam." The public's recognition with the old name was still apparent in the movie (released in 1950) through the script and the highway signage seen en route.

• Mason goes to Gilmore Field for a ball game. It was the home of the Hollywood Stars, a Pacific Coast League team until 1957 when the Dodgers moved to LA.

• (at around 2 mins) Mal Granger says, "I just wish I could lay my hands on Don Ameche for awhile; I'd teach him to invent the telephone." This is a reference to Don Ameche, who played the title character in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939).