- Southside 1-1000
Infobox Film | name = Southside 1-1000
caption =
director =Boris Ingster
producer = Frank King
Maurice King
writer = Bert C. Brown (story)
Milton M. Raison (story)
Boris Ingster
Leo Townsend
starring =Don DeFore Andrea King George Tobias Kippee Valez
music =
cinematography =Russell Harlan
editing =
distributor =Allied Artists Pictures
released =November 16 , 1950 (U.S. release)
runtime = 73 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0042989"Southside 1-1000" is a 1950
semidocumentary -style film, consideredfilm noir . The film stars Don DeFore, Andrea King andGerald Mohr as the off-screen narrator.Plot
Based on a true story, the US secret service goes after a gang of counterfeiters, whose
engraver (Morris Ankrum) has secretly constructed his plates while in prison. Federal agent Don DeFore poses as the counterfeiters' contact man in order to purchase enough bills to incriminate the gang.Filming location
The final fight-to-the-death scene was filmed aboard Los Angeles' "
Angels Flight ", a cable-car service hanging 40 feet above the ground.Critical reaction
A 1950 "
New York Times " review praised the films actors, calling Andrea King "smooth as velvet." The review also notes "In the cinema's library of routine gangster fiction, "Southside 1-1000" merits a comfortable middle-class rating being neither especially exciting nor particularly dull."Featured cast
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