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Walk a Crooked Mile is a 1948 American anti-communist, Cold War crime film, directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Dennis O'Keefe and Louis Hayward. Plot. Solid leads come to light about a Communist spy ring infiltrating the Lakeview Laboratory of Nuclear Physics, a southern California atomic research center.
Columbia Noir #4, released 20 September 2021, presents six world premieres on Blu-ray – Walk a Crooked Mile (Gordon Douglas, 1948), Walk East on Beacon!
Filming locations. (Shown as the home of Igor Braun, the painter/murderer.) (Igor Braun and his FBI tail come down Sacramento and turn onto Grant, in the heart of Chinatown.) (opening shot - used for Lakeview) (The FBI agents enter the Mason St. entrance to this building and it's said to be their stakeout spot.)
The Movie Walk A Crooked Mile , directed by Gordon Douglas , premiered in San Francisco on September 16, 1948. In documentary style narrated by the stern bass voice of Reed Hadley , it twists and turns its way through a joint investigation of communist spy activity by the FBI and Scotland Yard.
Walk a Crooked Mile. During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Gordon Douglas
- 1948-09-02
An FBI agent and a Scotland Yard man bust a spy ring stealing atomic secrets in California.
Packed with plot and narrated by the authoritative voice of actor Reed Hadley, Gordon Douglas’ Walk a Crooked Mile is a swiftly paced procedural noir overlaying a not-so-subtle postwar message to Americans that communism is evil.
