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The Crooked Web

The Crooked Web

  • Status: Released
  • 30-11-1955
  • Runtime: 77 min
  • Score: 5.9
  • Vote count: 14

Following WWII, ex-G.I. Stan opened up a drive-in restaurant. His girlfriend, Joanie, is one of the car hops. They want to get married someday, but the less-than-stellar business the restaurant takes in puts a hold on that plan. One day, Joanie's ne’er-do-well brother Frank blows into town with a money-making scheme. She's against it, but Stan - an inveterate gambler - finds the promise of riches too seductive to resist…

Frank Lovejoy

Stanley E. 'Stan' Fabian

Mari Blanchard

Joanie Daniel

Richard Denning

Frank Daniel

John Mylong

Herr Koenig

Harry Lauter

Sgt. Mike Jancoweizc

Steven Ritch

Ramon 'Ray' Torres

Louis Merrill

Herr Schmitt (as Lou Merril)

Vince Barnett

Ed - Stan's Partner in Drive-In (uncredited)

Phil Bloom

Bar Patron (uncredited)

George Cisar

Don Gillen (uncredited)

Judy Clark

Singer (uncredited)

Richard Emory

Doc Mason (uncredited)

Joseph Glick

Boat Passenger (uncredited)

Roy Gordon

Richard V. Atherton (uncredited)

Foster H. Phinney

Bar Patron (uncredited)

Van Des Autels

John Hart

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This is just a bit too convoluted for it's own good. It's all about a scheme to retrieve some gold from Germany buried at the end of WWII by Richard Denning ("Frank"). Frank Lovejoy ("Stan") and his gal Mari Blanchard ("Joanie") are the pair trying to manoeuvre their mark into taking them back to find the loot, but they also they have an ulterior motive of which poor old "Frank" is unaware. It's got a few twists and turns to keep the plot moving, but much of the story seems to exist in order to perpetuate itself, rather than offer us anything to get our teeth into and after a while it becomes a bit dull. The performances are weak, the dialogue really wordy and I found the music got on my nerves a bit, too. Director Nathan Juran usually had a good eye for a story and phototography at his best; this isn't it.