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The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir starring John Payne, Sonny Tufts and Ellen Drew. Directed by Robert Florey and shot by John Alton, the film has a similar plot (a war hero loses his memory from a combat wound) to another film noir Somewhere in the Night.
The Crooked Way: Directed by Robert Florey. With John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams. War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Robert Florey
- 1949-04-22
Jan 20, 2023 · The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Florey and starring John Payne, Sonny Tufts and Ellen Drew. The film, with a similar plot (a war hero loses his...
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Mar 16, 2020 · The Crooked Way is a 1949 film noir crime film directed by Robert Florey. The film was based on a radio play No Blade Too Sharp and features John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew and others. Find out more about the movie here.
- 86 min
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- Mo Chou
Robert Florey’s amnesia noir, The Crooked Way, is brutal and dark, both physically and morally, a tale of lost identity exaggerated beautifully by John Alton’s expressionistic cinematography.
War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past. After being released from hospital, a World War II veteran who's suffering from amnesia decides to return to Los Angeles to see if he can regain his identity.
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A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
