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The Crooked Web is a 1955 crime film noir directed by Nathan Juran and starring Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard and Richard Denning.^[1]

Plot

Stan Fabian runs a drive-in restaurant with girlfriend Joanie Daniel, whose brother Frank turns up for a visit. Joanie has declined to marry Stan because he's strapped for cash, but Frank tempts him with a proposition, mentioning that he and a partner hid a stash of gold in Germany during the war.

Stan accepts an offer to help recover the gold for a cut of the loot. What he doesn't know is that Joanie and Frank are actually undercover cops. A rich businessman's son was apparently killed by Stan during a deal gone wrong, but the German police are unable to extradite him to charge him with a crime.

Frank pretends to shoot his partner, using blanks. He secretly meets with Berlin chief of police Koenig, pretending to be looking for the gold. Stan fears a double-cross, but confesses his wartime murder to Joanie, and is shocked to be placed under arrest.

Cast

• Frank Lovejoy as Stanley Fabian
• Mari Blanchard as Joanie Daniel
• Richard Denning as Frank Daniel
• John Mylong as Herr Koenig
• Harry Lauter as Sgt. Mike Jancoweizc
• Steven Ritch as Ramon 'Ray' Torres
• Lou Merrill as Herr Schmitt
• Van Des Autels as Tom Jackson^[2]

References

External links

• The Crooked Web at IMDb
• The Crooked Web at AllMovie
• The Crooked Web at the TCM Movie Database