The Crooked Web

The Crooked Web

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The Crooked Web

1955 Directed by Nathan Juran

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Undercover agents investigate a murderer in Chicago.

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Frank Lovejoy Mari Blanchard Richard Denning John Mylong Harry Lauter Steven Ritch Louis Merrill

Clover Productions Columbia Pictures

77 mins More details at IMDb / TMDb

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Review by Martin Teller ★★★½

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

WARNING: This review contains spoilers. I’m not giving away anything you won’t learn in the first 15-25 minutes of the film, but it is a fairly big twist. I debated whether or not I should reveal anything, but decided the review would have been too vague without it.

Stan Fabian (Frank Lovejoy) runs a drive-in diner. His sort-of-girlfriend, Joanie (Mari Blanchard), is a carhop there. One day, Joanie’s brother Frank (Richard Denning) rolls into town. Joanie lets it slip that Frank has a big score cooking in Germany, recovering a stash of stolen gold from the war. Frank agrees to let Stan in on the deal, and the trio head off to Frankfurt. What Stan doesn’t know is that Frank…