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Quicksand
From Samuel H. Stiefel Productions
A guy who yields to temptation just once...... ....and finds it's once too often!
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Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
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Directed by Irving Pichel
Mickey Rooney
Jeanne Cagney
Barbara Bates
Peter Lorre
Taylor Holmes
Art Smith
Wally Cassell
Richard Lane
Patsy O'Connor
John Gallaudet
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CinemaSerfDec 27, 2022
Mickey Rooney is rather convincing as a naive young mechanic who pinches $20 from his employer so he can impress his gold-digging girlfriend on a date. Soon, though, the debt spirals out of control as he falls foul of the authorities, his employer and a particularly odious Peter Lorre ("Nick") and is soon being chased by the police for murder. It's been done on a shoestring, but the ending is exciting, if a little cheesy and contrived. The characters are interesting and well… Read more
hung together and make for an above average quality thriller.