Accused of Murder
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Directed by | Joseph Kane |
Screenplay by | Robert Creighton Williams W. R. Burnett |
Based on | the novel Vanity Row by W. R. Burnett |
Produced by | Joseph Kane |
Starring | David Brian Vera Ralston Sidney Blackmer |
Cinematography | Bud Thackery |
Edited by | Richard L. Van Enger |
Music by | R. Dale Butts |
Production company | Republic Pictures |
Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Accused of Murder is a 1956 American Trucolor film noir crime film directed by Joseph Kane and starring David Brian and Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer.
Plot[]
The nightclub singer, Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston), is accused of murder because she was the last person to see crooked attorney Frank Hobart (Sidney Blackmer) alive. Lt. Hargis (David Brian) attempts to prove her innocence.
Cast[]
- David Brian as Lt. Roy Hargis
- Vera Ralston as Ilona Vance
- Sidney Blackmer as Frank Hobart
- Virginia Grey as Sandra Lamoreaux
- Warren Stevens as Stant
- Lee Van Cleef as Sgt. Emmett Lackey
- Barry Kelley as Police Captain Smedley
- Richard Karlan as Chad Bayliss
- Frank Puglia as Cesar Cipriano
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Whitey Pollock
- Ian MacDonald as Trumble
- Greta Thyssen as Myra Bayliss
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Categories:
- 1956 films
- English-language films
- 1950s crime thriller films
- American crime thriller films
- American films
- Color film noir
- American police detective films
- Film noir
- Films based on American novels
- Films based on crime novels
- Films based on works by W. R. Burnett
- Republic Pictures films
- Trucolor films
- Films directed by Joseph Kane
- Crime thriller film stubs