Private Hell 36
| Private Hell 36 | |
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| Directed by | Don Siegel |
| Produced by | Collier Young |
| Screenplay by | Collier Young Ida Lupino |
| Starring |
Ida Lupino Steve Cochran Howard Duff Dean Jagger Dorothy Malone |
| Music by | Leith Stevens |
| Cinematography | Burnett Guffey |
| Edited by | Stanford Tischler |
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Production
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The Filmakers
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| Distributed by | Filmakers Releasing Organization |
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Running time
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81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Private Hell 36 is a 1954 crime drama film noir directed by Don Siegel starring Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger and Dorothy Malone.
The picture was one of the last feature-length efforts by Filmakers, a company created by producer Collier Young and his star and then-wife Ida Lupino.
L.A. police detectives Cal Bruner (Steve Cochran) and Jack Farnham (Howard Duff) get in over their heads when they decide to split up thousands of dollars they found on a recently killed counterfeiter. To make matters worse, they are assigned by their police captain to look for the missing cash.
Things get even worse when one cop gets romantically involved with Lili Marlowe (Ida Lupino), a money-hungry nightclub singer. Farnham decides to turn honest and hand the money over to his superiors, but the other cop decides to take it all.
The racetrack scenes in the film were shot at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California.
Film critic Bosley Crowther wrote a tepid review, "A critic might note that attention is sharply divided between the main theme and the incidental character that Miss Lupino plays. This is somewhat understandable, since Miss Lupino happens to be one of the partners in Filmakers and a coauthor of the script. But let's not worry about it. No deplorable damage is done. There's not very much here to damage. Just an average melodrama about cops."
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