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Director: Phil Karlson
Writer: George Bruce and Harry Essex (screenplay), Harold Greene and Rowland Brown (story)
Cinematographer: George E. Diskant
Plot: An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits. John Rolfe is initially fingered for commiting a bank robbery. He is innocent and is soon released from questioning. Once released, he tracks down every one responsible until they are all dead. (Though only by the police, or their own in-fighting.) Additionally, he and the beautiful daughter of the police chief (who is also the mastermind of the crime) ultimately fall in love with each other. A "Hollywood ending."
Trivia:
Neville Brand was a highly decorated WW II veteran (Purple Heart, Silver Star, ...).
Jack Elam is famous for his western movies, where he played colorful off-beat characters.
Lee Van Cleef is also famous for his westerns (for example, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"). This was his 3rd film, of about 200 appearances in TV and film in his entire career.
Coleen Gray was also in Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing".
The original version of the video is (or was, last time I checked) the top film noir downloaded from archive.org. The quality of the download is very good, with very few pixelated frames.
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