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The Big Steal <\/strong><\/em>(1949)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0Don Siegel<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Gerald Drayson Adams, Daniel Mainwaring <\/strong>(as Geoffrey Homes<\/strong>) based on “The Road to Carmichael’s” <\/em>by Richard Wormser<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro, Don Alvarado <\/strong>and John Qualen.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: It’s a tough, terrific adventure in grand larceny! But, there’s more than money on his mind…when he mixes with this gal with the million dollar figure!<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n $300,000 was robbed from a U.S. military payroll. Army lieutenant Duke Halliday wants the money.\u00a0 He knows Jim Fiske has it, but Fiske is on the lam.\u00a0 Duke is in pursuit.\u00a0 Duke’s superior, Captain Blake is after both Duke and Fiske.\u00a0 Blake intends to get the money back.<\/p>\n Fiske makes it across the US\/Mexican border with both Duke and Blake not far behind.\u00a0 In Mexico, Duke meets Joan Graham.\u00a0 Fiske scammed her for $2,000.00.\u00a0 Duke and Joan reluctantly agree to work together.<\/p>\n Fiske is desperate.\u00a0 He’s come too far to lose the money.\u00a0 And he’ll kill anyone who gets in his way.\u00a0 Duke and Joan are in his way.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Don Siegel, who would go on to helm classics such as Dirty Harry<\/em> and Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/em> does a fine job in his third outing as a feature film director.<\/p>\n The film’s shooting schedule was disrupted by Robert Mitchum’s 50-day prison sentence for marijuana possession.<\/p>\n Jane Russell was up for the female lead, but Howard Hughes was worried that Mitchum’s marijuana arrest would reflect badly on her.\u00a0 Russell was RKO Studios biggest female star and Hughes nixed her for the role.\u00a0 Lizabeth Scott refused the part, because she was also afraid it would tarnish her career.\u00a0\u00a0Jane Greer, who had worked with Mitchum in Out of the Past<\/em>, got the role.<\/p>\n The Big Steal<\/em> is the 1940s version of a chase movie.<\/p>\n There’s a couple of unexpected twists at the end.\u00a0 The Big Steal<\/em> is a fun ride.<\/p>\n The Big Steal <\/strong><\/em>(1949) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n The Big Steal (1949) Director:\u00a0Don Siegel Screenplay: Gerald Drayson Adams, Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes) based on “The Road to<\/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":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474","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=40474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40482,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions\/40482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\")
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