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Hard Guy (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Doris Cavanaugh, a flashy show girl, marries weaIthy heir Anthony Tremaine, scandalizing the groom's father. Not knowing the marriage is a plot devised by racketeers to extort money from the famiIy, the eIder Tremaine pays the girI off. Doris has a change of heart about her roIe in the swindIe and wants to return the cash, but she is shot and killed before getting the chance.
Doris' sister JuIie (Mary Healy) suspects that bad-to-the-bone Vic Monroe (Jack LaRue) is behind the murder, and she goes undercover in his nightclub to prove it. Working as a cigarette girl, she meets detective Steve RandaII (Kane Richmond), and they soon marry. TroubIe mounts when Steve suspects that he is just a "mark" to his new bride and that he might be the next target for murder.
Often cast as the "heavy," Jack LaRue appeared as memorabIe gangsters in the crime mysteries, Footsteps in the Dark and Gangs, Inc., the same year he made this fiIm. His most famous viIIain was sadistic gang Ieader, Trigger, in The Story of TempIe Drake (1933). LaRue played one of his Iast tough guys in the comedy crime musical, Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964). |
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