Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Release: 1949-04-20
Director: William Castle
Writers: Henry Jordan , Robert L. Richards
Language: Spanish | English
Stars: Howard Duff (I) (1913–1990) , Shelley Winters , Dan Duryea , Tony Curtis , John McIntire , Gar Moore , Leif Erickson , Barry Kelley , Hugh Reilly , Wally Maher
Runtime: 76 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Dzhonni stukach , Kokain , Johnny Stool Pigeon (Ireland) , Johnny Stool Pigeon (Canada) , Partners in Crime (United States of America) , Johnny Stool Pigeon , Druker Johnny , Viittä vaille kuolemaa (Finland) , Johnny o Denunciante (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Джонни стукач , Johnny turnatorul (Romania) , Mala hierba (Spain) , Contraband (United States of America) , Johnny Stool Pigeon (United States of America) , Traficantes da Morte (Brazil) , Johnny le mouchard (France, French Republic) , Mala hierba (Argentina) , Kokain (Austria) , Cocaina (Italy) , O katadotis (Greece) , Johnny Stool Pigeon (Australia) , Mala hierba (Mexico) , Farligt dubbelspel (Sweden) , Johnny Stool Pigeon (United Kingdom) , Narkotika (Denmark) , Cocaine (Netherlands the) , Cocaïne (Belgium)
Plot: In San Francisco, during the 1940s, US Treasury agents interrupt an illicit exchange between a sailor and a drug dealer. During the shootout, the sailor is killed but the drug dealer escapes. Later on,the agents pick up the trail of the fugitive drug dealer but arrive at his apartment too late. The dealer lays dead, permanently silenced by a hired hit-man. The only thing the agents have is an address book found on the dead drug dealer's body. Among the clues there is one that seems to be promising: the address of a shady Canadian trading company based in Vancouver. Treasury agent George Morton decides to visit a convict in Alcatraz and solicit his help in infiltrating the underworld. Morton knows that convincing the imprisoned criminal Johnny Evans to become a stool pigeon for the Feds won't be easy. But Evans is Morton's only hope to infiltrate the underworld and crack the case.
IMDB:tt0041529