Search results
Ex-gangsters
- George Raft is an ex-gangsters who helps the FBI bring down a counterfeiting operation run by the villainous George Macready.
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/johnny_allegro
People also ask
Why did George Raft choose Johnny Allegro?
Does George Raft play a florist?
Who was George Raft?
Who is Johnny Allegro?
Johnny Allegro is a 1949 American film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff and starring George Raft. An ex-gangster (Raft), temporarily working as a federal agent, runs afoul of a counterfeiting crime lord (Macready) who enjoys hunting. [1] It was one of several thrillers Raft made in the late 1940s. [2]
With George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready, Will Geer. Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
- (742)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Ted Tetzlaff
- 1949-05-26
Raft followed this with a series of thrillers: Johnny Allegro (1949), directed by Ted Tetzlaff for Columbia, Red Light (1949), by Roy Del Ruth for United Artists and A Dangerous Profession (1949) by Tetzlaff for RKO. None of these performed strongly at the box office, and Raft's standing as a box-office attraction had been damaged.
George Raft IS Johnny Allegro, a hood, natch, who busted out of prison and went to war as an agent for the O.S.S. under an assumed identity. While on the lam working as a florist in Los Angeles, he becomes romantically involved with Glenda (Nina Foch), whom he meets when she asks him to help her escape some cops.
- (334)
- Columbia Pictures
- Ted Tetzlaff
Glenda Chapman : This is Johnny Allegro. Morgan Vallin : You actually know his name! I'm Morgan Vallin.
Oct 24, 2016 · Stars: George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready, Will Geer. Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-noir. Storyline. Raft is once again the shady hoodlum who squares himself with the cops by acting as an undercover agent to expose an international smuggling outfit. Plenty of two-fisted action.
Ted Tetzlaff’s Johnny Allegro is a strange and lively little film in which George Raft plays the title character, a fugitive from Sing Sing who’s been living a new life as a Los Angeles floral shop manager until a U.S. Treasury agent (Will Geer) tracks him down and offers him a dangerous, undercover job in exchange for his continued freedom ...
