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26 July 1950 (USA)
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Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dan Duryea | ... | Mike Reese |
| Herbert Marshall | ... | E.J. Stanton |
| Gale Storm | ... | Catherine 'Cathy' Harris |
| Howard Da Silva | ... | Carl Durham |
| Michael O'Shea | ... | District Attorney Ralph Munsey |
| Mary Anderson | ... | Molly Rankin |
| Gar Moore | ... | Clark Stanton |
| Melville Cooper | ... | Maj. Redford |
| Frieda Inescort | ... | Mrs. Eldridge |
| Art Baker | ... | Lt. Tilton, state trooper |
| Harry Shannon | ... | George 'Parky' Parker |
| Alan Hale Jr. | ... | Shaeffer, Durham Warehouse Thug |
| Stephen Dunne | ... | Editor Chuck Lee |
| Roland Winters | ... | Stanley Becker, lawyer |
| Sue England | ... | Helen, fund worker |
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The Whipped (trailer title)
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91 min
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USA:Approved (PCA #14279) |
Sweden:15
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What makes this little crime movie as effective as it is, has something to do with the casting of unconventional Dan Duryea in the lead as the unscrupulous reporter. He's a lot like Willem Dafoe with the way he talks out of the bottom of his mouth - like a ventriloquist's dummy - and I mean that in a good way. Had they cast a more conventional leading man in the part like a Jimmy Stewart, for example, I don't think it would've worked as well, because Duryea really does come across as quite a heel, a low-life. It just isn't clear to the viewer if he should root for him or not, so that when he does undergo a change in character, it comes as a surprise rather than a foregone conclusion.
The movie also provides Howard Da Silva with one of his last roles before he was to be blacklisted for over 10 years. Always good at playing thugs, he's quite colorful and does a lot of scenery chewing as a powerful crime figure.
The script is intelligent and gritty, and the photography is appropriately stark and oppressive.