''Dangerous Partners'' is a 1945 American

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directed by

Edward L. Cahn Edward L. Cahn (February 12, 1899 – August 25, 1963) was an American film director. Early life and education Cahn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He went to work at Universal Pictures in 1917 while still a student at UCLA. Career H ...

and written by Marion Parsonnet and Edmund L. Hartmann, based on the novel “Paper Chase” by Oliver Weld Bayer, the pen-name of Leo and Eleanor Bayer (later known as the screen-writer

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.) The film stars James Craig, Signe Hasso,

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, John Warburton,

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and

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. The film was released on June 7, 1945, by

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Plot

Carola and Clyde Ballister find a briefcase containing four wills leaving $1-million bequests to an Albert Kingby. They visit the

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home of the first person who wrote a will benefiting Kingsby, a man named Kempen. They meet his attorney, Jeff Caign, and learn Kempen intended to leave the money to a singer, Lili Roegan. Kempen dies mysteriously, so the Ballisters take a train to go see Professor Ludlow, the next beneficiary. Caign tails them, discovers a dead Clyde, in Kingsby’s compartment and becomes the crooked Carola's new partner. The real Kingby turns up. He apparently is part of a Nazi group assisting war criminals. Carola and Caign, now lovers, go to New York City, where they are taken captive by Kingsby and pressured to reveal where the missing wills are. The police close in, kill Kingby but don't charge Carola and Caign, who are free to get on with their sordid lives.

Cast

* James Craig as Jeff Caign * Signe Hasso as Carola Ballister *

as Albert Richard Kingby *

as Lili Roegan *

as Marie Drumman * John Warburton as Clyde Ballister *

as Police Lt. Duffy *

as Jonathan Drumman *

Felix Bressart Felix Bressart (March 2, 1892 – March 17, 1949) was a German-American actor of stage and screen. Life and career Bressart (pronounced "BRESS-ert") was born in East Prussia, Germany (now part of Russia). His acting debut came in 1914 as Malvo ...

as Prof. Roland Ludlow *

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as Miles Kempen *

Stephen McNally Stephen McNally (born Horace Vincent McNally; July 29, 1911 – June 4, 1994) was an American actor remembered mostly for his appearances in many Westerns and action films. He often played hard-hearted characters, criminals, bullies, and othe ...

as Co-pilot *

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as Farrel Harriet Lee was the voice double for Audrey Totter in her singing scene.

References

External links

* 1945 films 1940s English-language films American adventure films 1945 adventure films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films directed by Edward L. Cahn American black-and-white films 1940s American films {{adventure-film-stub