Red Light
1949 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
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. Meanwhile, Nick himself gets out with murder still in his heart. But another factor is in play that none of them (except the murdered Jess) had planned on.
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast George Raft · Virginia Mayo · Gene Lockhart · Raymond Burr · Harry Morgan · Barton MacLane · Arthur Franz · Ken Murray · Stanley Clements · William Frawley · Phillip Pine · Arthur Shields · William 'Bill' Phillips · Movita · Frank Orth
Soundtrack Dimitri Tiomkin
Screenplay Edward G. O'Callaghan · Charles Grayson · Don 'Red' Barry
Cinematography Bert Glennon
Original title Red Light
5.9
90 votes (FilmAffinity)
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