DARK CITY

Details

• Release Year: 1950
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
• Plot: After losing his company's $5,000 cashier's check in a crooked card game, a stranger in Chicago commits suicide. The group of gamblers, with Danny Haley (Charlton Heston) as a member, worries about the dangers of cashing the check, but this becomes the least of their worries when the head of the group is found hanged. Police Captain Garvey (Dean Jagger) concludes the hanging to be a case of homicide and discovers that the stranger had a mentally deranged brother who is out to avenge this brother's death. Fran (Lizabeth Scott), a torch singer desperately in love with Danny, begs him to runaway with her. This classic film noir also features the stars of Dragnet, Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, as Danny's gambling partners.
• Cast: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore, Jack Webb, Ed Begley, Harry Morgan, Walter Sande, Mark Keuning, Mike Mazurki, Fred Aldrich, John Bishop, John Breen, Walter Burke, Hamilton Camp, Jack Carroll, Bill Cartledge, Jack Chefe, Sally Corner, Charles Dayton, Mike Donovan, Jimmie Dundee, Bob Evans, Sam Finn, Byron Foulger, Greta Granstedt, Joe Gray, Marcoreta Hellman, Stan Johnson, Hubie Kerns, Warren Mace, George Magrill, Mike Mahoney, Joan Morgan, Jay Morley, William H. O'Brien, Ralph Peters, Ben Pollack, Stanley Prager, Dewey Robinson, Franz Roehn, Kasey Rogers, Edward Rose, Jeffrey Sayre, James R. Scott, Bill Sheehan, Charles Sherlock, Owen Tyree, Otto Waldis, William Dieterle, John Meredyth Lucas, Lawrence B. Marcus, Ketti Frings
• Director: William Dieterle
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: Paramount
• Media Format: Movie