A Dangerous Profession (1949)
3.2 of 5 from 47 ratings
1h 19min
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- Synopsis:
Ex-policeman Vince Kane (George Raft) is a partner with Joe Farley (Pat O'Brien) as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone (Jim Backus). Ferrone picks up Claude Brackette (Bill Williams), a brokerage clerk, as a suspect in the securities robbery in which a policeman was killed, and Kane goes with him when the detective searches Brackett's apartment, and Kane finds that Brackett's wife, Lucy (Ella Raines), is his former sweetheart. She insists her husband is innocent and pleads with Kane to get him out on bail but she has only $4,000 of the $25,000 needed. A mysterious emissary puts up $12,000 and Kanes, over Farley's protest, makes up the rest from the company's money. Brackett is murdered after his release. For Lucy, Kane investigates and finds that Brackett had dealings with night club owner Jerry McKay and a hoodlum named Roy Collins. Suspecting McKay was in back of the robbery, Kane begins a campaign in which he himself behaves like a crook, and demands a heavy bride from McKay for his... - Actors:
- George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O'Brien, Bill Williams, Jim Backus, Roland Winters, Betty Underwood, Robert Gist, David Wolfe, Barry Brooks, Harry Brown, Dick Dickinson, Don Dillaway, Jim Drum, Gloria Gabriel, Mack Gray, Jonathan Hale, Charmienne Harker, Buck Harrington, Kenner G. Kemp
- Directors:
- Ted Tetzlaff
- Writers:
- Martin Rackin, Warren Duff
- Aka:
- The Bail Bonds Story
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
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