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Country. United States. Language. English. 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.
Oct 24, 2016 · Johnny Allegro (1949) By on October 24, 2016. Run Time: 81 min. | b/w. Director: Ted Tetzlaff. 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.
Johnny Allegro: Directed by Ted Tetzlaff. 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.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Ted Tetzlaff
- 1949-05-26
T ed 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.
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]
It looks great in the blu-ray noir collection. Johnny Allegro is a florist with his own shop in the lobby of a hotel in Los Angeles across from the bar, so George Raft in cool suit makes some beautiful flower arrangements. Now this - this is something different. Strength, skill, grace. A weapon for a man of culture.
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George Raft was nearing the end of his tenure as a leading man when he went to Columbia for this stylish film noir. The story, about a gangster on the lam recruited to smoke out an even bigger fish, combined the genre's twisted tales of divided loyalties with a villain out of The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and a hint at the Red Scare (the powers behind the mobster are foreign agents, possibly Communists).
