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A Dangerous Profession (1949)

A Dangerous Profession poster
Directed by
Ted Tetzlaff
Genre
film noir, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 19m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A police detective and a former FBI agent become bail bondsmen. They get involved with a beautiful woman whose husband is one of their clients.

noirishsuspensefulmelancholicgrittytenseworld-wearycerebralmorally ambiguous

What happens

A Dangerous Profession is a 1949 American film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff, written by Warren Duff and Martin Rackin, and starring George Raft, Ella Raines and Pat O'Brien. The film was one of a series of thrillers in which Raft appeared in the late 1940s, with decreasing commercial results. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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