**Spoilers** Railroaded into prison for life in a payroll robbery that resulted in the shooting death of a security guard US Marine combat veteran Rocky Mulloy, Dick Powell, is given a break after serving five years of a life sentence. When disable veteran and fellow Marine Delong, Richard Erdman, later came up with an alibi for him. Delong tells the D.A that Rocky was with him in a bar at the time of the robbery, it was a lie.
Not that Rocky was guilty, he wasn't. Delong desperate for cash felt that Rocky knew where the payroll money that was never recovered, some $100,000.00, was stashed and wanted a part of it. Out on the street Rocky is now more then ever interested in finding out who set him and his friend Danny Morgan up in the crime, that he and Danny were sent up the river for. Rocky goes to see the person who was behind and planned the robbery. A small time hood named Louis Castro, William Conrad.
Going to Castro's office on the top floor of a bar in order to beat the truth out of him Rocky get's Castro, who knows that Rocky is a man of his word,to placate the angry Rocky Mulloy. Castro gives Rocky $500.00 and a tip on a race that afternoon; put it all on a horse named "Draganfly" they already got his winning photo developed Castro tells him.
Rocky going to Castro's bookie, a guy named Hy, and plunking down the $500.00 ends up collecting, with "Draganfly" winning at odds of 8 to 1 by a nose, a cool $4,000.00! Taking out Danny's wife Nancy, Ronda Fleming, together with Delong and his kleptomaniac girlfriend Darlene LaVonne, Jean Porter, to celebrate Rocky is shocked to find out from Det. Gus Cobb, Regis Toomey, that Castro and his bookie Hy paid him off in hot money! In fact the very money that was taken in the payroll heist/murder that he was sent to the state pen for!
Better then your average film-noir crime drama with not as much darkness like in William Powell's earlier film-noir flicks. The movie "Cry Danger" has all the ingredients for success and puts them all together with style. we have the down and out pasty, Rocky Mulloy, being manipulated by those that he trusts. In a crime that he had nothing to do with but was conned or made to take the rap for. There's a very surprising ending when we realize that not only was Rocky innocent his friend Danny was involved with Castro in the robbery! In short Rocky was not only set up by the sleazy hood Castro but his best friend!
Not that Rocky was guilty, he wasn't. Delong desperate for cash felt that Rocky knew where the payroll money that was never recovered, some $100,000.00, was stashed and wanted a part of it. Out on the street Rocky is now more then ever interested in finding out who set him and his friend Danny Morgan up in the crime, that he and Danny were sent up the river for. Rocky goes to see the person who was behind and planned the robbery. A small time hood named Louis Castro, William Conrad.
Going to Castro's office on the top floor of a bar in order to beat the truth out of him Rocky get's Castro, who knows that Rocky is a man of his word,to placate the angry Rocky Mulloy. Castro gives Rocky $500.00 and a tip on a race that afternoon; put it all on a horse named "Draganfly" they already got his winning photo developed Castro tells him.
Rocky going to Castro's bookie, a guy named Hy, and plunking down the $500.00 ends up collecting, with "Draganfly" winning at odds of 8 to 1 by a nose, a cool $4,000.00! Taking out Danny's wife Nancy, Ronda Fleming, together with Delong and his kleptomaniac girlfriend Darlene LaVonne, Jean Porter, to celebrate Rocky is shocked to find out from Det. Gus Cobb, Regis Toomey, that Castro and his bookie Hy paid him off in hot money! In fact the very money that was taken in the payroll heist/murder that he was sent to the state pen for!
Better then your average film-noir crime drama with not as much darkness like in William Powell's earlier film-noir flicks. The movie "Cry Danger" has all the ingredients for success and puts them all together with style. we have the down and out pasty, Rocky Mulloy, being manipulated by those that he trusts. In a crime that he had nothing to do with but was conned or made to take the rap for. There's a very surprising ending when we realize that not only was Rocky innocent his friend Danny was involved with Castro in the robbery! In short Rocky was not only set up by the sleazy hood Castro but his best friend!