Crime wave,

Resource Information

The work Crime wave, represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Lawrence Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Crime wave,

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures. Decoy / Monogram Pictures Corporation presents a Bernhard-Brandt production

Title variation

• Film noir classic collection
• Decoy

Contributor

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Armstrong, Robert, 1890-1973
• Bernhard, Jack, 1914-1997
• Brandt, Bernard
• De Toth, André, 1912-2002
• Foy, Bryan, 1896-1977
• Gillie, Jean, 1915-1949
• Hayden, Sterling, 1916-1986
• Hoskins, John
• Hoskins, Ward
• Kay, Eddie, 1898-1973
• Kirk, Phyllis, 1927-2006
• Leonard, Sheldon, 1907-1997
• Nelson, Gene, 1920-1996
• Norris, Edward, 1911-2002
• Rubin, Stanley, 1917-2014
• Rudley, Herbert, 1910-2006
• Wilbur, Crane, 1886-1973
• Woodwarth, Marjorie, 1919-2000
• Young, Nedrick
• Monogram Pictures Corporation

Subject

• Antidotes -- Drama
• Criminal behavior -- United States -- Drama
• Escapes -- United States -- Drama
• Film noir
• Gangsters -- United States -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Treasure troves -- United States -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Film noir
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama

Language

eng

Summary

• Crime wave: Three San Quentin escapees kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, one of the escapees flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey. Steve is paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and can't afford to be caught associating with old cronies. But homicide detective Sims wants to use Steve to help him catch the other 2 escapees, who in turn extort his help in a bank job
• Decoy: Gangster Frank Olins is about to die in the gas chamber much to the dismay of his girlfriend Margot Shelby. Only Frank knows the location of $400,000. Margot seduces gangster Jim Vincent to get him to engineer the removal of Olins body from the prison immediately after he dies. She forces the prison doctor to administer an antidote for cyanide gas poisoning to Olins. The revived Olins gives Margot half of a map showing the money location and Vincent, in a fit of jealousy, kills Olins and takes the other half. Because the doctor's plates on his car will get them through the police roadblocks, Vincent and Margot take him with them on the money hunt

Member of

• Film noir classic collection double feature

Cataloging source

OSU

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• Crime wave: produced by Bryan Foy ; screenplay by Crane Wilbur ; directed by Andre de Toth
• Decoy: produced by Jack Bernhard and Bernard Brandt ; screenplay by Ned Young ; original story by Stanley Rubin ; directed by Jack Bernhard

Language note

• In English with French subtitles
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

LC call number

PN1995.9.F54

LC item number

C725 2007

PerformerNote

• Crime wave: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
• Decoy: Jean Gille, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Marjorie Woodwarth

Runtime

150

Series statement

Film noir classic collection double feature

Target audience

general

Technique

live action