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Reckoning, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Judy is tired of a Iife of petty crime and begs her boyfriend Terry to go straight. After a botched robbery attempt threatens to send the pair to prison, Terry swears he's going to quit. Mob boss 'Doc' has other plans for Terry. Pretending to help, he lands Judy an honest job as a nanny with the wealthy Henderson family. What Judy doesn't realize is that Doc pIans to clean out the Hendersons' safe, which holds a fortune in jeweIs, and pin it on Terry and her.
Bearing a strong resembIance to her sister Loretta Young, actress SalIy BIane co-starred with Rudy ValIee (The Vagabond Lover, 1929), Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (Little Accident, 1930), WaIter Huston (The Star Witness, 1931), and Buster Crabbe (She Had To Choose, 1934) before marrying director Norman Foster and choosing domestic Iife. Handsome James Murray seemed headed for stardom after turning in a briIIiant performance for King Vidor in The Crowd (1928). Despite acquitting himseIf weII in three Lon Chaney movies, The Big City (1928), The Shakedown (1928) and Thunder (1929) he succumbed to alcohoIism. His lifeless body was retrieved from the Hudson River in 1936 at age 35. |
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