Danger Zone (1951 film)

Danger Zone
Directed by	William Berke
Screenplay by	Julian Harmon
Story by	Herbert Margolis Louis Morheim
Produced by	William Berke Jack Leewood
Starring	Hugh Beaumont Tom Neal Edward Brophy
Cinematography	Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by	Carl Pierson Harry Reynolds
Music by	Bert Shefter
Production company	Spartan Productions
Distributed by	Lippert Pictures
Release date	April 20, 1951 (1951-04-20)
Running time	56 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Danger Zone is a 1951 American film noir directed by William Berke and starring Hugh Beaumont, Tom Neal and Edward Brophy. A low-budget second feature, it was distributed by the independent Lippert Pictures.

Plot

Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private eye Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at a yacht-party auction, ^[1] but O'Brien is slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. He is then framed for the murder of Vicki Jason's husband. With the aid of Frederick Schickler, he proves his innocence when Vicki kills her coconspirator and lover Edgar Spadely, another private detective, and Vicki admits her own guilt in the murder of her husband.

Cast

• Hugh Beaumont as Dennis O'Brien
• Tom Neal as Edgar Spadely
• Edward Brophy as Prof. Frederick Simpson Schicker
• Richard Travis as Police Lt. Bruger
• Pamela Blake as Vicki Jason
• Virginia Dale as Claire Underwood
• Ralph Sanford as Larry Dunlap
• Paula Drew as Sheila Jason
• Jack Reitzen as Cole, the Auctioneer
• Edward Clark as Elderly Man at Auction
• Richard Monahan as Henry, the Bartender
• Don Garner as Bud Becker
• Tiny Jones as Woman at Auction

See also

• Roaring City (1951)
• Pier 23 (1951)

References

1. "Danger Zone (1951)". www.cinematerial.com. Retrieved 2020-03-22.

External links

• Danger Zone at IMDb
• Danger Zone at the TCM Movie Database