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Red Light

6.0 83 mins Thriller   Crime   1949
Roy Del Ruth Productions   Pioneer Pictures Corporation  
Director(s): Roy Del Ruth

Release Date: 30 Fri, Sep 1949

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

Casts of Red Light

George Raft

as Johnny Torno

Virginia Mayo

as Carla North

Gene Lockhart

as Warni Hazard

Raymond Burr

as Nick Cherney

Harry Morgan

as Rocky

Barton MacLane

as Detective Strecker

Arthur Franz

as Fr. Jess Torno

Ken Murray

as Ken Murray

Stanley Clements

as Carlson Hotel Bellhop

William Frawley

as Hotel Night Clerk

Arthur Shields

as Father Redmond

Frank Orth

as Wallace 'Wally' Stoner

Phillip Pine

as Pablo Cabrillo

William Phillips

as Det. Jim Ryan

Movita

as Trina (uncredited)

Victor Sen Yung

as Vincent (uncredited)

Claire Carleton

as Waitress (uncredited)

Leonard Bremen

as Bookie (uncredited)

Bill Cartledge

as Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Robert Espinoza

as Miguel (uncredited)

Charles Ferguson

as Reporter at Airport (uncredited)

Paul Frees

as Bellhop (uncredited)

Mack Gray

as Bookie (uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

as Detective Arresting Nick (uncredited)

Al Hill

as Burt (uncredited)

Bob Jellison

as Man in Hotel Room (uncredited)

Soledad Jiménez

as Pablo's Mother (uncredited)

Phyllis Kennedy

as Chambermaid (uncredited)

Joe Kirk

as Reporter in Newsreel (uncredited)

David Leonard

as Man Reading Bible (uncredited)

Knox Manning

as Newsreel Commentator (voice) (uncredited)

Edwin Max

as Bert Adams (uncredited)

Sol Murgi

as Convict (uncredited)

Simon Oakland

as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Jack Overman

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Bob Perry

as Red's Helper (uncredited)

Brick Sullivan

as Red (uncredited)

John Wald

as Reporter at Airport (uncredited)

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