A man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal.

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(as Cyril Endfield)

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(written for the screen by), (novel)
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Howard Tyler
Kathleen Ryan ...
Judy Tyler
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Gil Stanton
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Jerry Slocum
Katherine Locke ...
Hazel
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Velma
Art Smith ...
Hal Clendenning
Renzo Cesana ...
Dr. Simone
Irene Vernon ...
Helen Stanton
Cliff Clark ...
Sheriff Demig
Harry Shannon ...
Mr. Yaeger
Donald Smelick ...
Tommy Tyler
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The unemployed Howard Tyler is desperate for a job since he is married with children and his wife Judyis pregnant. When he meets the "bon vivant" Jerry Slocum, the stranger offers a job position to Howard. Soon he learns that Jerry is a small-time thief and his job would be to drive the getaway car after the heist. Howard improves the life of his family and tells that he is working in the night shift of a factory. Meanwhile, the journalist Gil Stanton that works in a tabloid is assigned by the owner to promote the thefts to increase the selling of newspaper. When Jerry kidnaps the son of a millionaire, he brutally kills the man and forces Howard to help him to dump the corpse in the sea. Then he asks for ransom to the family. When the boy is found, Stanton incites the population telling that the abductors are monsters. When Howard and Jerry are arrested, a mob threatens their lives in front of the police station. How will the police officers protect the prisoners? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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A blonde with ice cold nerves and deep warm curves !


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12 December 1950 (USA)  »

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Fureur sur la ville  »

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The source subject - the 1933 incident in San Jose - was also covered in Fritz Lang's film Fury (1936). See more »

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Remembering TRY AND GET ME
19 November 2005 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

As others have said.....This movie stays with you....I was 10.. probably younger..when I saw it....and I can still recall the feeling in my stomach and aching in my heart. I don't remember much of the details of the movie......just the overall feeling I came away with....the pain...of something terribly wrong, injustice... I don't believe that it could have been "workmanlike" in any way since I remember the feelings so strongly.....A "Workmanlike" made film could not have made that happen to me...I would really like to see it again as an adult....I hope I can find it on DVD.

It's revealing to me that someone else.. as a child.. after so many years.. could have come away from the film with the same, exact feelings.

Thanks!


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