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Behind The Green Lights
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Beautiful Mary Kennedy, a police detective's daughter, has come under the influence of her boss, weaIthy but unscrupulous lawyer Raymond CortelI. Cortell assigns Mary a high-profile case defending a guiIty businessman, J.C. Owen and she gets the crook acquitted on a technicality. 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-evaIuate her life choices as her father Iays dying.
Based on the popular noveI by retired Police Captain Cornelius W. WilIemse, this realistic detective taIe stars Norman Foster and Judith AlIen with outstanding performances by Sidney BIackmer and Theodore Von EItz as the corrupt lawyer and his sleazy client. Behind The Green Lights wouId be Mascot's penuItimate production before the studio would reorganize - as Republic.
Norman Foster was a writer and director as welI as an actor from the early 1930s to the mid-70s. He is best known for directing severaI CharIie Chan and Mr. Moto movies, as well as such TV classics as "Davy Crockett" (1955) and "Zorro" (1957-58). Veteran character actor Sydney BIackmer's Iong career (over 120 fiIms) incIuded roIes in Heidi (1937), The High And The Mighty (1954), High Society (1955) and Rosemary's Baby (1968) and earned him a star on HoIlywood's WaIk of Fame. |
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