Tough Assignment (1949)

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64 min - Action | Adventure | Crime - 15 November 1949 (USA)

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In order to investigate a modern-day cattle rustling operation, a newspaper reporter and his girlfriend infiltrate the gang.

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	Don 'Red' Barry	...	Dan Reilly (as Don Barry)
	Marjorie Steele	...	Margie Reilly
	Steve Brodie	...	Boss Morgan
	Marc Lawrence	...	Vince (a tough)
	Ben Welden	...	Sniffy (a tough)
	Sid Melton	...	Herman (crooked rancher)
	John L. Cason	...	Joe (crooked rancher) (as John Cason)
	Frank Richards	...	Steve (thug at ranch)
	Fred Kohler Jr.	...	Grant--Head Rancher
	Michael Whalen	...	'Hutch' Hutchison
	Edit Angold	...	Mrs. Schultz
	Leander De Cordova	...	Schultz (the butcher)
	Stanley Andrews	...	Chief Investigator Patterson
	Stanley Price	...	Al Foster (butcher)
	Iris Adrian	...	Gloria (the moll)

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Don Reilly, a Los Angeles newspaper reporter in 1949, recently married to Margie, a photographer employed by the same newspaper, stumbles upon the fact that gangsters are forcing butcher shops to sell their unlicensed beef, and he persuades his managing editor to allow him to follow up on the story. His bride goes with him on an investigation that leads him to the ranch hideout of the gang, who are rustling cattle using fast, refrigeration trucks. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

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An Action-Packed Expose of Cattle Rustling Today

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Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Western

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USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 November 1949 (USA) See more »

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Cowboy-Gangster See more »

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Donald Barry Productions See more »

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64 min

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Mono

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Black and White

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1.37 : 1

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One of a handful of films shot with "The new Garutso lens for 3-Dimensional effect". The lens in question was hardly "new", having been developed and used in films since the '30's, but it made great ballyhoo. The lens is an extreme wide angle device that could be used with a large assortment of diopter filters, hence making everything seem, from foreground to background, in perfect focus. See more »

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