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Release Date:
September 1, 1950
Original Title:
Shakedown
Alternate Titles:
Reportage fatal
Genres:
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Production Companies:
Universal International Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 80
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
Art Direction:
Robert Clatworthy
Bernard Herzbrun
Assistant Director:
Joseph E. Kenney
George Lollier
Camera Operator:
Kyme Meade
Costume Design:
Yvonne Wood
Director:
Joseph Pevney
Director of Photography:
Irving Glassberg
Editor:
Milton Carruth
Gaffer:
Norton Kurland
Grip:
Everett Brown
Hairstylist:
Joan St. Oegger
Helen Turpin
Makeup Artist:
Del Armstrong
Bud Westmore
Music:
Daniele Amfitheatrof
Milton Rosen
Miklós Rózsa
Hans J. Salter
Frank Skinner
Leith Stevens
Music Director:
Joseph Gershenson
Producer:
Ted Richmond
Production Manager:
Lew Leary
Screenplay:
Alfred Lewis Levitt
Martin Goldsmith
Script Supervisor:
Pat Betz
Set Decoration:
Russell A. Gausman
Ruby R. Levitt
Sound:
Leslie I. Carey
Robert Pritchard
Still Photographer:
Sherman Clark
Story:
Nat Dallinger
Don Martin
Stunts:
Evelynne Smith
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