{"id":38863,"date":"2025-05-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38863"},"modified":"2025-05-05T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:32:28","slug":"riffraff-1947-starring-pat-obrien-walter-slezak-and-anne-jeffreys-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38863","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Riffraff&#8221; (1947) starring Pat O&#8217;Brien, Walter Slezak and Anne Jeffreys \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z050525zview_riffraff.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"763\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Riffraff <\/strong><\/em>(1947)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Ted Tetzlaff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Martin Rackin<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Pat O&#8217;Brien, Walter Slezak<\/strong><strong>, Anne Jeffreys, Jerome Cowan, George Givot, Marc Krah, William Alland, Bobby Barber <\/strong>and <strong>Percy Kilbride<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em>\u00a0<\/em>None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A plane leaves Peru for Panama with just two passengers.\u00a0 The plane lands with just one.\u00a0 His name is Charles Hasso (Krah).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasso immediately hires Dan Hammer (O&#8217;Brien) to be his bodyguard for two days.\u00a0 Before Hammer can start, he gets a call from Walter Gredson (Cowan), a big shot oil executive.\u00a0 Gredson says that a man, with a map of wildcat oil wells was coming to meet him.\u00a0 The man got on the plane in Peru but never made it to Panama.\u00a0 Charles Hasso was the other passenger.\u00a0 Gredson believes Hasso now has the map.\u00a0 Gredson offers Hammer a lot of money to find Hasso and the map.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Hammer is a tough guy who is known as a man who can get things done.\u00a0 This time he may be in over his head.\u00a0 Especially when Eric Molinar (Slezak) gets in the mix.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Riffraff<\/em> opens with six and a half minutes of scenes without dialogue.\u00a0 It is considered one of movies&#8217; classic openings\/sequences.<\/p>\n<p>Pat O&#8217;Brien doesn&#8217;t look like a typical tough PI, but more than holds his own in that department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Riffraff <\/strong><\/em>(1947) rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.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\/2025\/z050525zview_riffraff2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riffraff (1947) Director:\u00a0 Ted Tetzlaff Screenplay: Martin Rackin Stars: Pat O&#8217;Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys, Jerome Cowan, George Givot, Marc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38864,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38863\/revisions\/38864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}