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The Crooked Way (1949)

The Crooked Way poster
Directed by
Robert Florey
Genre
drama film, film noir
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A war hero returns home with no memory of his past. He searches for his identity and discovers he was a criminal.

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What happens

The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir starring John Payne, Sonny Tufts and Ellen Drew. Directed by Robert Florey and shot by John Alton, the film has a similar plot (a war hero loses his memory from a combat wound) to another film noir, Somewhere in the Night. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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