Decoy (1946)

Directed by

Jack Bernhard

Genre

drama film, film noir, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman uses her charms to manipulate men into helping her recover hidden money. She and a former partner scheme against a police detective and a gangster.

tensenoirishgrittymanipulativesuspensefulbroodingfast-paced

What happens

Decoy is a 1946 American film noir starring Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, and Sheldon Leonard. Directed by Jack Bernhard, it was produced by him and Bernard Brandt as a Jack Bernhard Production, with a screenplay by Nedrick Young based on an original story by Stanley Rubin. Jean Gillie, the wife of Jack Bernhard at the time, played the femme fatale central to the picture's story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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