Overview:
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.| Status: | Released (1949-09-30) |
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| Screen: | George Callahan, Charles Grayson, Don 'Red' Barry |
| Productions: | Roy Del Ruth Productions, Pioneer Pictures Corporation |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 3152: George Raft - Johnny Torno
- 13579: Virginia Mayo - Carla North
- 30234: Gene Lockhart - Warni Hazard
- 7685: Raymond Burr - Nick Cherney
- 4073: Harry Morgan - Rocky
- 14451: Barton MacLane - Detective Strecker
- 85940: Arthur Franz - Fr. Jess Torno
Crews
- 94218: Roy Del Ruth - Director - Directing
- 103789: Don 'Red' Barry - Story - Writing
- 120729: George Callahan - Screenplay - Writing
- 344185: Charles Grayson - Additional Dialogue - Crew
- 94218: Roy Del Ruth - Producer - Production
- 4082: Dimitri Tiomkin - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 14960: Bert Glennon - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
John Chard
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Army Chaplain Slain! Red Light is directed by Roy Del Ruth and adapted to screenplay by George Callahan from the story This Guy Gideon written by Don Barry. It stars George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr, Harry Morgan and Gene Lockhart. Music is by Dimitri Tiomkin and cinematog ....
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This is quite an intriguing crime noir, with George Raft as the owner of a trucking company out to avenge the murder of his brother - a priest. We know from the start who is responsible for the crime, so the film provides us with a front row seat as he sets about tracking down the cu ....
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