Hard Guy (1941)
1941 · Feature film · 65 min · dir. Elmer Clifton
An easy trigger finger kept the glamor girl in line...They'll marry any young fool who has the price of a fifty-thousand dollar annulment in his pocket!
- Drama
- Thriller
- Crime
Synopsis
Hard Guy is a 1941 American crime film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Mary Healy, Jack La Rue, Kane Richmond and Iris Adrian. It was a low-budget second feature distributed by the Producers Releasing Corporation. The film is also known by the alternative title Professional Bride in the United Kingdom.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Elmer Clifton
- Writer
- Oliver Drake
- Studio
- PRC
- Released
- 1941-10-17
- Running time
- 65 minutes
Cast & crew
Elmer Clifton Director
Jack La Rue
Mary Healy
Kane Richmond
Iris Adrian- Gayle Mellott
Jack Mulhall- Howard Banks
Ben Taggart
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · This is actually pretty good. · kareneliot · 2010-08-20
I was surprised at this one. It was a somewhat stilted beginning and rather predictable, but still it was a pretty original story-line, if somewhat choppy, but I was entertained. It's sort of a murder mystery, except that you already know who killed who, it's watching the tale unfold that's the bulk of this movie, and there's some assorted singing and dancing in the beginning.
★★ · Marriage scam replaces prostitute scam · rclo · 2011-05-10
I didn't see the predictability that other reviewers cited. I didn't know where the plot was going in the beginning, but I was distracted and might have missed something. At any rate, the plot is a cleaned-up version of the "photos of the victim with the prostitute" blackmail scam. Because it was 1941, the premise was cleaned up a bit. The flick moves along at a good pace, and the conclusion was more predictable than the beginning.
★★ · Miss Star · Dr Feel Rotten · 2010-11-17
Boy ya just wanna slap her and scream, "Whaddaya STUPID?" Then she walks in on the floozy just like the script screams it will.. I think it would be tougher to predict the sun rising tomorrow morning or it getting dark when it goes down at night. If ever a movie was predictable this one is it.
