Red Light

Sep 30, 1949

1h 23m

★ 5.8

THERE'S TROUBLE AHEAD!

Overview

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

Roy Del Ruth Productions

Pioneer Pictures Corporation

Red Light Trailers

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Cast

Johnny Torno

George Raft

Carla North

Virginia Mayo

Warni Hazard

Gene Lockhart

Nick Cherney

Raymond Burr

Rocky

Harry Morgan

Detective Strecker

Barton MacLane

Fr. Jess Torno

Arthur Franz

Ken Murray

Carlson Hotel Bellhop

Stanley Clements

Hotel Night Clerk

William Frawley

Father Redmond

Arthur Shields

Wallace 'Wally' Stoner

Frank Orth

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