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Director: Jack Bernhard
Writers: Nedrick Young (screenplay), Stanley Rubin (story)
Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Sheldon Leonard
Genre: Film Noir
Length: 76 minutes
"A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash."
Decoy (1946)
Writers: Nedrick Young (screenplay), Stanley Rubin (story)
Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Sheldon Leonard
Genre: Film Noir
Length: 76 minutes
"A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash."
Tagline
'She Treats Men the Way They've Been Treating Women for Years!'
Woohoo! what a crazy woman Margot is! Played by British actress Jean Gillie, Margot is a one of a kind character, for any film noir. She's nearly psychopathic in how she takes joy in seducing men, only to use them, then kill them! It's pretty bold stuff for 1946.
Right after WWII, movies in America took a dark turn, most of the big studios made dark themed, crime melodramas which later would be called film noir.
Decoy, is a 'poverty row' film, which describes any of the small movie studios that made B-budget pictures on the cheap. Decoy was one such movie made by Bernhard-Brandt Productions and disturbed by Monogram Pictures, those are names most aren't familiar with.
What makes these smaller noirs interesting is they could do more daring stuff than the big studios would usually attempt. And it doesn't get much more daring than a non repentant female lead who takes joy in double crossing and killing men, so that she can get her hands on the stolen loot.
If that ain't enough to peak your interest in this cult classic noir, then how about the scene where a doctor is forced to revive a convicted killer who was just gassed in the prison's gas chamber. Who knew methylene blue could perform such miracles? I love this scene as it's reminiscent of Frankenstein ala noir.
Jean Gillie, made one helluva a wicked femme fatale. Sadly she died at 33 and her career was cut short.
Right after WWII, movies in America took a dark turn, most of the big studios made dark themed, crime melodramas which later would be called film noir.
Decoy, is a 'poverty row' film, which describes any of the small movie studios that made B-budget pictures on the cheap. Decoy was one such movie made by Bernhard-Brandt Productions and disturbed by Monogram Pictures, those are names most aren't familiar with.
What makes these smaller noirs interesting is they could do more daring stuff than the big studios would usually attempt. And it doesn't get much more daring than a non repentant female lead who takes joy in double crossing and killing men, so that she can get her hands on the stolen loot.
If that ain't enough to peak your interest in this cult classic noir, then how about the scene where a doctor is forced to revive a convicted killer who was just gassed in the prison's gas chamber. Who knew methylene blue could perform such miracles? I love this scene as it's reminiscent of Frankenstein ala noir.
Jean Gillie, made one helluva a wicked femme fatale. Sadly she died at 33 and her career was cut short.