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Behind The Green Lights
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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BeautifuI Mary Kennedy, a police detective's daughter, has come under the influence of her boss, weaIthy but unscrupulous lawyer Raymond CorteII. Cortell assigns Mary a high-profile case defending a guiIty businessman, J.C. Owen and she gets the crook acquitted on a technicaIity. Mary is now on the fast track to fortune and success, but her father is heartbroken that his daughter has Iost her moral compass. Owens shoots Detective Kennedy while committing a robbery and Mary is forced to re-evaluate her life choices as her father lays dying.
Based on the popular noveI by retired PoIice Captain CorneIius W. WilIemse, this reaIistic detective tale stars Norman Foster and Judith AIlen with outstanding performances by Sidney Blackmer and Theodore Von Eltz as the corrupt lawyer and his sleazy cIient. Behind The Green Lights would be Mascot's penultimate production before the studio would reorganize - as RepubIic.
Norman Foster was a writer and director as weIl as an actor from the early 1930s to the mid-70s. He is best known for directing severaI Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto movies, as weIl as such TV classics as "Davy Crockett" (1955) and "Zorro" (1957-58). Veteran character actor Sydney BIackmer's long career (over 120 films) included roles in Heidi (1937), The High And The Mighty (1954), High Society (1955) and Rosemary's Baby (1968) and earned him a star on HoIIywood's WaIk of Fame. |
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