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THEY MADE THEIR OWN RULES... and played for keeps!
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.Read moreLess
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
The story
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
Cast & crew
John PayneRick Mason
Joan CaulfieldDeborah Owens Clark
Dan DuryeaSilky Randall
Shelley WintersTory
Dorothy HartMadeline
Richard Rober
Dan O'HerlihyDuke
Nicholas JoyWalter Vanderline
Percy HeltonCharlie Jordan
Walter GreazaMr. Owens
Harry AntrimMr. McNultyExplore the crew
- Editor
- Frank Gross
- Producer
- Leonard Goldstein
- Director
- George Sherman
- Director of Photography
- Irving Glassberg
- Screenplay
- Herbert H. Margolis
- Screenplay
- William Bowers
- Screenplay
- Lou Morheim