Shakedown (1950 film)


Shakedown is a 1950 crime film noir directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy, Peggy Dow, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett and Anne Vernon.

Plot

Unscrupulous newspaper photographer Jack Early is sent to take a picture of racketeer Nick Palmer, who doesn't like to be captured on celluloid. Palmer takes a liking to Early and asks him to frame his henchmen Colton. Early double-crosses Palmer and informes Colton that his boss had planned to frame him. Shortly afterward Palmer is killed by a car bomb and Early becomes famous for taking a picture of the event. Eventually Early is himself killed by Colton but he manages to snap a picture of his murderer in the act.

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