John "Johnny" Eager
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Ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate
- Johnny Eager masquerades as a taxi driver for his gullible parole officer, A. J. Verne, but in reality, he is the ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate.
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Johnny Eager is a 1941 American film noir directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Robert Taylor, Lana Turner and Van Heflin. Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film was one of many spoofed in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982).
Johnny Eager: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin. The step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.
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- Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1942-01-17
Sep 22, 2021 · In Johnny Eager, the title character played by Robert Taylor is a smooth-talking ex-con. While he’s daylighting as a reformed taxi driver, Johnny is still up to his old racketeering tricks at...
The step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned. Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is working as a taxi driver.
Johnny Eager (1941) is a delightful and fast-moving early period classic film noir, starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner as two compromised and heartless individuals working against their better natures as they slide fatefully into separate dooms.
In an astonishingly explicit depiction of gay adoration for 1941, Van Heflin plays Jeff Hartnett, Eager’s closest friend and longtime admirer who drinks himself into oblivion while dreaming of a day when they can run away together to the Rocky Mountains.
When that man's stepdaughter (Lana Turner) falls for Eager, the crook uses her as leverage to get what he wants. In this world of deceit, Jeff Hartnett (Van Heflin) is Eager's only...
- Crime, Drama
