Decoy (1946) on Netflix
Approved19461h 16mCrimeDramaFilm-Noir
Margot Shelby tells a detective how she schemed to get the $400,000 her old lover Frankie Olins hid before he was sent to the gas chamber for murder.
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Plot summary
Margot Shelby's lover, Frankie Olins, is sentenced to die in the gas chamber for a killing committed during a holdup that took $400,000. The money was never found. Margot no longer loves him, and she wants the loot for herself. With Jim Vincent, another lover, she first tries to appeal the conviction. That fails, and she brings Dr. Lloyd Craig, the physician at the prison, into a scheme of her own.
Cast
- John Shayas Al
- Rosemary Bertrandas Ruth
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Decoy (1946)
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- Jean Gillie, who played the femme fatale Margot Shelby, was married to the film's director Jack Bernhard at the time.
- In 2000 the American Cinematheque screened Decoy with Stanley Rubin, the writer of its original story, in attendance, and the film brought the house down.
