Cornered (1945)

Name: Cornered
Genre: Thriller
Released: 1945-11-23
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale, Morris Carnovsky

Thriller

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

Release Date: November 23, 1945
Runtime: 1h 42m
Rating: 6.2/10 (45 votes)

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale, Morris Carnovsky, Edgar Barrier, Steven Geray, Jack La Rue

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

film noir post world war ii

IMDb

Full Cast (47 people)

Dick Powell as Laurence Gerard
Walter Slezak as Melchior Incza
Micheline Cheirel as Mme. Madeleine Jarnac(Laurent)
Nina Vale as Señora Camargo
Morris Carnovsky as Manuel Satana
Edgar Barrier as DuBois, Insurance Man
Steven Geray as Señor Tomas Camargo
Jack La Rue as Diego, Hotel Valet
Gregory Gaye as Perchon, German Banker
Luther Adler as Marcel Jarnac
Ellen Corby as Swiss Maid (uncredited)
Gino Corrado as Room Service Waiter (uncredited)
Tanis Chandler as Airline Hostess (uncredited)
Martin Cichy as Jopo (uncredited)
Jean Del Val as M. Trabeau, First Prefect (uncredited)
Byron Foulger as Hotel Night Clerk (uncredited)
Cy Kendall as Detective (uncredited)
Nelson Leigh as Dominion Official (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold as Party Guest (uncredited)
Belle Mitchell as Hotel Maid (uncredited)
Nestor Paiva as Police Official (uncredited)
Stanley Price as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Kenneth MacDonald as Henchman (uncredited)
Carlos Barbe
Paul Bradley
Egon Brecher
Richard Clarke
Jerry De Castro
Rod De Medici
Jean Del Val

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Reviews

John Chard - 8/10

Which gives you the insane privilege to blow people to bits? Cornered is directed by Edward Dmytryk and adapted to screenplay by John Paxton from a story by John Wexley. It stars Dick Powell, Walter Slezak and Micheline Cheirel. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Harry J. Wild. Story is set at the end of World War II and finds Powell as demobbed Canadian flier Laurence Gerard. He ret...

June 9, 2020