The Crooked Way (1949)

- 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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