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Difficult to find on home video for many years, Jack Bernhard's Decoy (1946) stands as a highly off-beat film noir in which Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie) plays the consummate femme fatale with designs on the $400,000 her lover, Frankie (Robert Armstrong), has hidden. She needs to break him out of jail in order to get her hands on the money and does so by allowing him to be executed, only to bring him back from the dead...
Writers Christa Faust and Maitland McDonagh join Mike to discuss this usual film.
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Writers Christa Faust and Maitland McDonagh join Mike to discuss this usual film.
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Labels: Christa Faust Film Noir Maitland McDonagh Noirvember
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Music credits
- "Femme Fatale" - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Links & resources
- Buy Decoy on DVD (Film Noir Set) (opens in a new tab)
- Buy Decoy on DVD (Double Feature) (opens in a new tab)
- Read a great article about Decoy (opens in a new tab)
- Buy Maitland McDonagh's books (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the official Christa Faust website (opens in a new tab)
- Learn more about Peepland (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the Hard Case Crime website (opens in a new tab)
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