Movie
The Web
Overview
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
Details
- Release date
- 1947-06-04
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal International Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Ella Raines as Noel Faraday
- Edmond O'Brien as Bob Regan
- William Bendix as Lt. Damico
- Vincent Price as Andrew Colby
- Maria Palmer as Martha Kroner
- John Abbott as Charles Murdock
- Fritz Leiber as Leopold Kroner
- Howland Chamberlain as James Nolan (as Howard Chamberlin)
- Tito Vuolo as Emilio Canepa
- Wilton Graff as District Attorney
- Robin Raymond as Newspaper Librarian
- Patricia Alphin as Secretary
Crew
- Michael Gordon - Director
- William Bowers - Screenplay
- Bertram Millhauser - Screenplay
- Harry Kurnitz - Story
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