Danger Zone (1951 film)

Danger Zone
Directed by	William Berke
Produced by	William Berke; Jack Leewood;
Screenplay by	Julian Harmon
Story by	Herbert Margolis; Louis Morheim;
Music by	Bert Shefter
Cinematography	Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by	Carl Pierson; Harry Reynolds;
Production; companies	Spartan Productions
Distributed by	Lippert Pictures
Release date	April 20, 1951 (USA);
Running time	56 minutes

Danger Zone is a 1951 American film noir directed by William Berke.

Plot

Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private-eye Dennis O'Brien (Hugh Beaumont) to purchase a saxophone case at a yacht party auction,[1] and O'Brien is promptly slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien snoops around and learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. O'Brien then gets involved with the murder of Vicki Jason's husband and gets slugged again and framed. With the aid of "Professor" Schickler, he proves his innocence when Vicki kills her co-conspirator lover, Edgar Spadely---another private-detective who had gotten O'Brien involved to begin with---and Vicki admits her own guilt in the murder of her husband.[2]

Cast

Hugh Beaumont as Dennis O'Brien
Tom Neal as Edgar Spadely
Edward Brophy as Prof. Frederick Simpson Schicker
Richard Travis as Police Lt. Bruger
Pamela Blake as Vicki Jason
Virginia Dale as Claire Underwood
Ralph Sanford as Larry Dunlap
Paula Drew as Sheila Jason
Jack Reitzen as Cole, the Auctioneer
Edward Clark as Elderly Man at Auction
Richard Monahan as Henry, the Bartender
Don Garner as Bud Becker
Tiny Jones as Woman at Auction

Production

The film was originally known as Roaring.[3]

References

"Danger Zone (1951)". www.cinematerial.com. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
Adams, Les (2020). "Danger Zone". Retrieved March 22, 2020.
Schallert, E. (Dec 22, 1950). "Top singer jack smith joins 'moonlight bay;' new loos-sale deal set". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 166166919.

External links

Danger Zone at IMDb
Danger Zone at the TCM Movie Database

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[1] "Danger Zone (1951)". www.cinematerial.com. Retrieved 2020-03-22.

[2] Adams, Les (2020). "Danger Zone". Retrieved March 22, 2020.

[3] Schallert, E. (Dec 22, 1950). "Top singer jack smith joins 'moonlight bay;' new loos-sale deal set". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 166166919.