The Payoff 1942

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Action Thriller Crime Mystery

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.

Release Date 1942-11-24
Runtime 1h 14m
Directors Arthur Dreifuss, Ira H. Morgan, Eddie Davis
Producers Harry D. Edwards, Jack Schwarz
Writers Edward Dein, Arthur Hoerl, Edward Dein

A public prosecutor is murdered and a wise-cracking tabloid journalist (Lee Tracy) with contacts (legit and not) sets out to track down the perpetrator. As we progress through this unremarkably procedural crime thriller, we discover that the murderer is much closer to home than he'd like. The cast do their jobs well enough - Tina Thayer and Tom Brown; but essentially this is just an opportunity for Tracy to be, well, himself.

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