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Loan Shark is a 1952 American crime film noir directed by Seymour Friedman and starring George Raft, Dorothy Hart and Paul Stewart.
Loan Shark: Directed by Seymour Friedman. With George Raft, Dorothy Hart, Paul Stewart, John Hoyt. At the request of factory owners and union leaders, a tough ex-con infiltrates a gang of loan sharks who are preying on financially desperate factory workers.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Seymour Friedman
- 1952-05-23
A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang.
Dec 15, 2022 · 1930s gangster great George Raft is an ex-convict now on the right side of the law in this tight-knit crime drama.
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The dreary existence of factory workers in cramped apartments with ugly wallpaper serves as the backdrop for Seymour Friedman’s Loan Shark, which opens in traditional noir fashion with a frightened man being chased through the night and pummeled in an alley.
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Newly paroled convict George Raft moves in with his sister and takes a job at the neighborhood tire plant, where half the crew is in debt to a small-time loan shark operation. When the mob graduates from beatdowns to murder, Raft goes undercover to take them down from the inside.
