{"id":36633,"date":"2024-09-13T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36633"},"modified":"2024-09-12T21:05:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T01:05:40","slug":"36633","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36633","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Questions Asked&#8221; (1951) starring Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy &amp; Jean Hagen \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z091324zview_noquestions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"766\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>No Questions Asked (1951)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Harold F. Kress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Sidney Sheldon; <\/strong>story by <strong>Berne Giler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl<\/strong><strong>, Jean Hagen, Richard Anderson, Moroni Olsen, Danny Dayton, William Phipps, Howland Chamberlain <\/strong>and <strong>Robert Osterloh<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>M-G-M presents the inside story of the men and their women in the &#8220;stolen goods&#8221; racket.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steve Keiver (Sullivan) wants to marry Ellen Sayburn (Dahl).\u00a0 Trouble is he can&#8217;t afford her lifestyle.\u00a0 Not on his insurance investigator&#8217;s salary.\u00a0 When some valuable furs are stolen, Keiver gets a brainstorm.\u00a0 It&#8217;s risky, but Ellen is worth it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keiver meets with some locally known mobsters.\u00a0 Keiver puts out word he will accept the furs, no questions asked.\u00a0 In turn he will pay them $7,500 of the $10,000 insurance reward.\u00a0 Keiver will keep $2,500 for his trouble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surprisingly, Keiver&#8217;s deal is accepted.\u00a0 Keiver takes the money to buy a ring for Ellen. Then he learns that she&#8217;s with someone else.\u00a0 So when mobsters come to Keiver with more stolen goods, he&#8217;s more than eager to act as the go-between with the insurance companies.\u00a0 The insurance companies like getting the goods back, but aren&#8217;t too happy with Keiver.\u00a0 The cops even less so.\u00a0 But he&#8217;s not doing anything illegal.\u00a0 Immoral maybe, but not illegal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Keiver gets in deeper with the crooks, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before things go sideways.\u00a0 And when things go bad, people get killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>No Questions Asked<\/em>\u00a0 has an interesting idea that quickly loses steam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>No Questions Asked (1951)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z091324zview_noquestions2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Questions Asked (1951) Director: Harold F. 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