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Close-Up (1948)

Close-Up poster
Directed by
Jack Donohue
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 16m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man gets caught up in a dangerous crime plot. Police detectives investigate a series of murders in a shadowy urban setting.

noirsuspensefulshadowycity-grittybroodingtenseclassic-1940s

What happens

Close Up is a 1948 American film noir directed by Jack Donohue from a screenplay by John Bright. It stars Alan Baxter, Virginia Gilmore and Richard Kollmar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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