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6.1/10   50 votes
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Director:
Harold F. Kress
Writers:
Berne Giler (story)
Sidney Sheldon (writer)
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Release Date:
June 1951 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Film-Noir more
Plot:
Steve Keiver, young lawyer working for an insurance company, hears his boss remark that he'd pay a large... more | add synopsis
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Noirish look at insurance scams marred by indifferent acting more

Cast

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Barry Sullivan ... Steve Kiever
Arlene Dahl ... Ellen Sayburn Jessman
George Murphy ... Insp. Matt Duggan
Jean Hagen ... Joan Brenson

Richard Anderson ... Det. Walter O'Bannion
Moroni Olsen ... Henry Manston
Danny Dayton ... Harry Dycker (as Dan Dayton)
Dick Simmons ... Gordon N. Jessman
Howard Petrie ... Franko
William Phipps ... Roger
William Reynolds ... Floyd (as William Regnolds)
Mauritz Hugo ... Marty Callbert
Mari Blanchard ... Natalie
Robert Sheppard ... Det. Eddie
Michael Dugan ... Det. Howard
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Sweden:15

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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Noirish look at insurance scams marred by indifferent acting, 14 February 2001
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Author: bmacv from Western New York

No Questions Asked takes us down the primrose path followed by ambitious insurance agent Barry Sullivan (but all quality comparisons to Double Indemnity end there). He links up with mobsters who guarantee the return of stolen goods in exchange for a payoff consisting of a percent of their insured value -- and the insurance company acquiesces in this bottom-line trimming. (Sullivan's fiancee, Arlene Dahl, aspires to a higher standard of living.) Soon he's raking in big bucks, to the chagrin of his former co-worker Jean Hagen, who carries a torch for him. There are some good scenes (including a heist in a theater's ladies' lounge by two torpedoes in drag as society dames) and plot twists; some of the cinematography is not bad, either, though it's pretty cliched noir. The worst part of this movie, however, is the generic acting from all involved, except for that of Jean Hagen -- Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain -- and a couple of the bit players. Still, it's worth a first look, if not a second viewing.

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