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Two Knights from Brooklyn (1949)

Two Knights from Brooklyn poster
Directed by
Kurt Neumann
Genre
mystery film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two ordinary Brooklyn buddies start a taxi business. They stumble into a plot against a local gangster while also dealing with their own relationship troubles.

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What happens

Two Knights from Brooklyn is a 1949 film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring William Bendix, Joe Sawyer, and Grace Bradley. It chronicles the adventures of two average "Joes" that form a taxi company in Brooklyn, foil the notorious gangster, "The Frisco Ghost", and live through wives and girlfriend problems. The film was compiled from two of Hal Roach's Streamliners short features, both originally directed by Neumann a few years before. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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