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A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.



Can you come down to my level? Decoy is directed by Jack Bernhard and adapted to screenplay by Nedrick Young from a story written by Stanley Rubin. It stars Jean Gillie, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard and Edward Norris. Music is by Edward J. Kay and cinematography by L. William OConnell. Margot Shelby (Gillie) is dying on the sofa, a victim of a gunshot wound. Sgt. Jo Portugal (Leonard) leans in to hear the story of how she came to be in this situation Manic, delirious, bonkers, nasty, Decoy is all of those things, and more, wonderfully so. Running at under 80 minutes, this B noir out of Monogram spins a cruel tale of greed, fatalism and cold blooded homicide, all propelled by one of the coldest and wickedest femme fatales to have ever worn a pair of stilettos. Plot involves money of course, theres a pot load of it buried somewhere and Margot Shelby wants it. The trouble is is that her criminal boyfriend, Frank Olins (Armstrong), is going to the gas chamber and he isnt telling anyone where the loot is. No problem for Margot, she uses her cunning feminine wiles to ensnare a couple of male dupes into her web, and then the three of them resurrect Frank from the dead and put into action a plan that will reveal where the cash is. Easy Peasy! As the brilliant beginning has shown us, we know the fate of Margot, what you cant be ready for is what she is prepared to do to achieve her aims, and her means and motives sock you right between the eyes. Even as death approaches she still has to have the last cruel laugh. The beautifully sensuous Gillie gives a thoroughly memorable performance, its a tragedy that she would die three years later of pneumonia, aged just 33. Elsewhere. Bernhard (who was married to Gillie at the time) is only competent in direction, but along with the performance he gets out of Gillie (which was a veer from the norm for her), he also gets a cracker turn out of Leonard. Kays music is inconsistent, even too breezy in the wrong areas, and OConnells photography is standard stuff that doesnt strive for any mood accentuation. Yes you have to kind of unscrew your brain and black out some of the more dafter elements here, and theres some unintentionally cheese laden moments, but what an experience it is all told. 7.5/10

Movie details Decoy

Release : 1946-09-14
Genre : Crime, Drama, Film Noir
Runtime : 76 minutes
Company : Bernhard-Brandt Productions

Cast

	Edward Norris	as	Jim Vincent
	Robert Armstrong	as	Frank Olins
	Herbert Rudley	as	Dr. Craig
	Sheldon Leonard	as	Sergeant Joe Portugal
	Marjorie Woodworth	as	Nurse
	Philip Van Zandt	as	Tommy
	Carole Donne	as	Waitress
	John Shay	as	Al
	Bert Roach	as	Bartender
	Rosemary Bertrand	as	Ruth
	Jean Gillie	as	Margot Shelby
	Ray Teal	as	Policeman (uncredited)

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