Double Deal

Dec 1, 1950

1h 4m

★ 6.2

Rip-Roaring Drama of Oil-Mad Oklahoma!

Overview

An oil engineer surrounded by foul play helps an heiress bring in a well.

Genres

Mystery

Drama

Adventure

Production Companies

Bel-Air Productions

Double Deal Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Terry Miller

Marie Windsor

Buzz Doyle

Richard Denning

C.D. 'Corpus' Mills

Taylor Holmes

Lilly Sebastian

Fay Baker

Walter Karnes

James Griffith

Reno Sebastian

Carleton Young

Sheriff L.G. Morelli (as Tom Browne Henry)

Thomas Browne Henry

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

6.9

This Gun for Hire

Apr 24, 1942

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

6.7

The Blue Dahlia

Apr 16, 1946

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

7.3

Dark Passage

Sep 5, 1947

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

4.3

The Crimson Key

Jul 2, 1947

Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife is also killed. Larry shuffles through a long list of suspects before revealing the killer...

6.4

Murder, Inc.

Jun 28, 1960

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man Reles.

7.6

White Heat

Sep 2, 1949

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

1.0

Kopfschuß

Oct 31, 1981

Annie is a cashier in a Munich Cinema Center. Her everyday life is the complete opposite of the exciting screen adventures she sells at the box office, so she fantasizes about the movies during the day. At night, she also begins to stage her own adventure in real life.

6.5

Tomorrow Is Another Day

Aug 8, 1951

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.

6.5

Stranger on the Third Floor

Aug 16, 1940

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

5.9

The Mark of the Whistler

Oct 9, 1944

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.

6.3

The Lodger

Jan 19, 1944

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

6.5

Whirlpool

Jan 13, 1950

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

7.0

The Web

Jun 4, 1947

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.