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Tag Archives: Ted Tetzlaff
Under the Gun (1951) Ted Tetzlaff, Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John McIntire
New York gangster Bart Galvin (Richard Conte) is sent to a prison-farm in Florida for killing one of his enemies in Miami. Read More »
Johnny Allegro (1949) Ted Tetzlaff, George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready
Los Angeles hotel lobby florist Johnny Allegro is a man with a secret: he’s a former criminal who escaped from the Sing Sing prison. Read More »
Gambling House (1950) Ted Tetzlaff, Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix
Small time racketeer Marc Fury agrees to plead self-defense for a murder committed by gang boss Joe Farrow in exchange for Farrow’s I.O.U. for $50,000. Read More »
Riff-Raff (1947) Ted Tetzlaff, Pat O’Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys
A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. Read More »
The White Tower (1950) Ted Tetzlaff, Claude Rains, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli
The White Tower, a Matterhorn-like mountain in the Swiss Alps, has never been climbed. Read More »
The Window (1949) Ted Tetzlaff, Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In age 9, Tommy Woodry has a reputation for telling tall stories — the newest one being that his family is moving from Manhattan to a ranch out west. Read More »
Son of Sinbad (1955) Ted Tetzlaff, Dale Robertson, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sinbad was pursuing a secret weapon: Greek Fire. Attributed to the ancient Greeks, it was composed of pitch or bitumen, sulfur, and other ingredients. Read More »
Terror on a Train / Time Bomb (1953) Ted Tetzlaff, Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
A terrorist has placed a bomb on board a train transporting sea mines to Portsmouth. The train is stopped but near a small town, which actually exacerbates the problem. Read More »
A Dangerous Profession (1949) Ted Tetzlaff, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien
Ex-policeman Vince Kane is a partner with Joe Farley as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone. Ferrone picks up Claude Brackette, 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, 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 …
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