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Release Date:
July 1, 1950
Original Title:
711 Ocean Drive
Alternate Titles:
Der Henker saß am Tisch
Mondo equivoco
Genres:
Crime
Production Companies:
Essaness Productions
Frank Seltzer Productions
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
GB: PG US: NR
Runtime: 102
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
Art Direction:
Perry Ferguson
Assistant Director:
Charles L. Smith
Camera Operator:
Eddie Fitzgerald
Costume Design:
Odette Myrtil
Director:
Joseph M. Newman
Director of Photography:
Franz Planer
Editor:
Bert Jordan
Hairstylist:
Ann Locker
Makeup Artist:
Jack Byron
Music Director:
Emil Newman
Original Music Composer:
Sol Kaplan
Producer:
Frank N. Seltzer
Production Design:
Perry Ferguson
Production Manager:
Orville Fouse
Property Master:
Arnold Goode
Set Decoration:
Howard Bristol
Sound Mixer:
James F. Gaither Jr.
Wardrobe Master:
Greta Isgrigg
Writer:
Francis Swann
Richard English
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