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The Crooked Way is a black-and-white 1949 film directed by Robert Florey. The film, considered film noir, was based on a radio play No Blade Too Sharp. The film, with a similar plot (a war hero looses his memory stateside) to another film noir Somewhere in the Night
, was shot by noted cameraman John Alton.

Plot

A war hero recovering at a San Francisco hospital is suffering from amnesia. The doctors tell the silver-star reciepent the only thing they know about him is that he enlisted in Los Angeles. They speculate that maybe going back there may help him get his memories back. He goes only to be recognized by police as a dangerous gangster named Eddie Ricardi.

Films The Crooked Way, Nobody Lives Forever
, Somewhere in the Night
and The Blue Dahlia
, all have a familiar 1940s film noir theme. A young war hero returns from fighting a war only to find that his world back home is as dark and dangerous as the war he just left.

Cast

John Payne
as Eddie Rice aka Eddie Riccardi
Sonny Tufts as Vince Alexander
Ellen Drew
as Nina Martin
Rhys Williams
as Lieutenant Joe Williams
Percy Helton
as Petey
John Doucette
as Sgt. Barrett

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