SHAKEDOWN - BLU-1950-HOWARD DUFF

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• Release Year: 1950
• Genre: Film-Noir
• Plot: A drug dealer shoots a corrupt police officer. Though the drug dealer admits his guilt, he pleads self-defense. His lawyer, Roland Dalton, and renegade loner NYPD narcotics agent Richie Marks, pursue evidence in his favor. They encounter difficulties from other corrupt police officers, drug dealers, and various street scum. Dalton's life is further complicated by the fact that the prosecuting attorney is a former lover.
• Cast: Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy, Peggy Dow, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett, Anne Vernon, Peter Virgo, Charles Sherlock, Rock Hudson, Elsie Baker, Ralph Brooks, Douglas Carter, Jack Chefe, Chester Conklin, Bert Davidson, Joe Dougherty, Roy Engel, Charles Flynn, James Garwood, Doretta Johnson, Stapleton Kent, Donald Kerr, Will Lee, Leota Lorraine, William Marks, Gregg Martell, John Miller, Forbes Murray, William H. O'Brien, Kenneth Patterson, Joseph Pevney, Jack Reitzen, Jack Rice, Kay Riehl, Stephen Roberts, Carl Sklover, Wendy Waldron, Steve Wayne, Josephine Whittell, Eric Wilton, Nat Dallinger, Martin Goldsmith, Alfred Lewis Levitt, Don Martin
• Director: Joseph Pevney
• Runtime: 1:20
• Company: Universal International
• Media Format: Movie