Summaries

Two small-time jewel thieves team up with a larger gang to pull off a $1-million heist. However, the police always seem to be one step ahead of them, and the gang soon begins to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

Joan Summers (Louise Currie) enters the office of jewel merchant Montclaire (Francis Pierlot) closely followed by Kendal Wolf (Kent Taylor). Each recognizes the other to be a jewel thief, and wordlessly they team together to steal a $30,000 diamond. Searched and questioned when the gem is missed, they are released....with the gem. Detective Sharpe (Larry Blake) is still suspicious and so is the head of Jeweler's Indemnity, who puts two underworld men on to retrieve the diamond. Kendal agrees to meet the two but the police are tipped and Sharpe confiscates the gem and the fence's money. Again Kendal and Joan are released, but each suspects the other of being an informer despite a growing romantic attachment. Kendal and Joan attend an exhibition of the Malabar diamonds, leave to follow a diamond-lade guest, overtake her car, shoot the chauffeur and slug the woman. At Kendal's apartment, Joan makes it clear that robbery, not murder, is her game. Two men and the robbed couple arrive and reveal the whole thing to be a hoax to test whether Joan will work with the gang and to assure them she wasn't the informer in the first theft.—Les Adams <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • police
  • female police officer
  • informer
  • jewel
  • hoax
Genres
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Film-Noir
Release date Jul 17, 1947
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Sutherland Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production companies Sol M. Wurtzel Productions

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 3m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

Synopsis

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