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Backfire (1950)While recuperating from wartime back injuries at a hospital, veteran Bob Corey is visited on Christmas Eve by a beautiful stranger with an even stranger message. Director:Vincent Sherman |
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Title: Backfire (1950)
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| Viveca Lindfors | ... |
Lysa Radoff
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| Dane Clark | ... |
Ben Arno
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| Virginia Mayo | ... |
Nurse Julie Benson
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| Edmond O'Brien | ... |
Steve Connelly
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| Gordon MacRae | ... |
Bob Corey
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| Ed Begley | ... |
Police Captain Garcia
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Frances Robinson | ... |
Mrs. Blayne
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Richard Rober | ... |
Solly Blayne
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| Sheila MacRae | ... |
Bonnie Willis
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David Hoffman | ... |
Burns
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Bob Corey, recovering from a series of operations in a Veterans' hospital, learns that his friend, Steve Connelly, with whom he intended to buy a ranch, has disappeared under circumstance that indicate he may have been involved in a murder. Accompanied by his nurse, Julie Benson, with whom he has fallen in love, Bob follows a series of clues and incidents, including three more murders, that leads to a gambler, masquerading as an undertaker to avoid taxes on his illegal income, has a whole lot to do with his friend's predicament. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
11 February 1950 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Somewhere in the City See more »Filming Locations:
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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(uncredited)
Music by Arthur Schwartz
Played when Steve, Bonnie and Lysa are sitting at the table in the nightclub
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Completed in October 1948, but not released until 1950. See more »Quotes
Ben Arno: [to Bob about Steve] I didn't only break his back the last ten days, I broke his heart,See more »
Soundtracks
"You and the Night and the Music"(uncredited)
Music by Arthur Schwartz
Played when Steve, Bonnie and Lysa are sitting at the table in the nightclub
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Although Gordon MacRae was signed for musicals by Warner Brothers, Jack Warner like the rest of his fellow Hollywood moguls did not believe in keeping players idle. With no musical properties at the ready, MacRae starred in Backfire about a World War II veteran trying to locate a friend whom the police suspect of murdering gambler Richard Rober.
The friend is Edmond O'Brien and MacRae thinks so because he got a woman visitor with a mysterious foreign accent while he was still all doped up on anesthetic from a final operation. The visitor turns out to be Viveca Lindfors and MacRae despite warnings from police captain Ed Begley is on the hunt, aided and abetted by his nurse Virginia Mayo who took a real liking to MacRae while in her care.
Backfire is not a mystery as such because the more MacRae looks, people get bumped off right and left. When MacRae is finally closing in on solving the mystery, the suspect is rather obvious.
For the most part however Gordon MacRae confined himself to musicals of varying quality and later on left the Hollywood scene altogether for nightclubs. Still he did show he could handle a straight acting job in Backfire and Warner Brothers did give him a strong supporting cast. Backfire still holds up well for today's audience.