- Country: USA
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Release: 1949-11-26
- Director: Ted Tetzlaff
- Writers: Martin Rackin , Warren Duff
- Language: English
- Stars: George Raft , Ella Raines , Pat O’Brien , Bill Williams , Jim Backus , Jim Backus , Roland Winters , Betty Underwood , Robert Gist , David Bauer (I) (1917–1973) , Barry Brooks
- Runtime: 79 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Опасная профессия , Libre bajo fianza (Argentina) , A Dangerous Profession (United States of America) , Libre bajo fianza (Venezuela) , A Dangerous Profession , Libre bajo fianza (Colombia) , Libre bajo fianza (Mexico) , Libre bajo fianza (Chile) , A Dangerous Profession (Canada) , Una profesión peligrosa (Spain) , O profesie periculoasa (Romania) , Dangereuse profession (France, French Republic) , A Dangerous Profession (Ireland) , Profissão Perigosa (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , A Dangerous Profession (United Kingdom) , The Bail Bonds Story (United States of America) , Capturado (Brazil) , Una professió perillosa (Spain) , A Dangerous Profession (Australia) , Μεταξύ εγκλήματος και νόμου (Greece) , Opasno zanimanje
- Plot: Ex-policeman Vince Kane is a partner with Joe Farley as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone. Ferrone picks up Claude Brackette, a brokerage clerk, as a suspect in the securities robbery in which a policeman was killed, and Kane goes with him when the detective searches Brackett's apartment, and Kane finds that Brackett's wife, Lucy, is his former sweetheart. She insists her husband is innocent and pleads with Kane to get him out on bail but she has only $4,000 of the $25,000 needed. A mysterious emissary puts up $12,000 and Kanes, over Farley's protest, makes up the rest from the company's money. Brackett is murdered after his release. For Lucy, Kane investigates and finds that Brackett had dealings with night club owner Jerry McKay and a hoodlum named Roy Collins. Suspecting McKay was in back of the robbery, Kane begins a campaign in which he himself behaves like a crook, and demands a heavy bride from McKay for his silence. Farley denounces this tactic, and is met by Kane for a payment also, or he will be branded in league with the crooks.
- IMDB:tt0041278
A Dangerous Profession Cast · · · ALL
Ted Tetzlaff
Director
George Raft
Vince Kane
Ella Raines
Lucy Brackett
Pat O’Brien
Joe Farley
Bill Williams
Claude Brackett
Jim Backus
Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (as James Backus)
Roland Winters
Jerry McKay
Betty Underwood
Elaine Storm
Robert Gist
Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
David Bauer
(I)
(1917–1973)
Harry Brown
Don Dillaway
Mack Gray
Jonathan Hale
Charmienne Harker
Kenner G. Kemp
Phyllis Kennedy
Frances Morris
William J. O’Brien
Lynne Roberts
Frank Shannon
Michael St. Angel
Ken Terrell
Nancy Valentine
Terry Wilson