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Tough Assignment

6.0 64 mins Western   Action   Adventure   Crime   1949
Donald Barry Productions   Screen Guild Productions  
Director(s): William Beaudine

A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!

Casts of Tough Assignment

Don 'Red' Barry

as Dan Reilly

Marjorie Steele

as Margie Reilly

Steve Brodie

as Boss Morgan

Marc Lawrence

as Vince

Ben Welden

as Sniffy

Sid Melton

as Herman

John Cason

as Joe

Frank Richards

as Steve

Fred Kohler Jr.

as Grant--Head Rancher

Michael Whalen

as 'Hutch' Hutchison

Edit Angold

as Mrs. Schultz

Leander De Cordova

as Schultz

Stanley Andrews

as Chief Investigator Patterson

Stanley Price

as Al Foster

Iris Adrian

as Gloria

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