Laurence Gerard
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Cornered: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale. Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
Cornered is a drama of smoldering vengeance and political scheming which builds purposefully and with graduating tension to a violent climax, a committing of murder that is as thrilling and brutal as any you are likely to encounter in a month of movie-going.
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
During World War II, Laurence Gerard (Dick Powell) of the Royal Canadian Air Force was taken captive by the enemy, but now that the fighting is over he has begun a quest for...
- Mystery & Thriller
The tendrils of fascism creep across the globe and through the back most recesses of man’s mind in “Cornered.” The 1945 noir casts Dick Powell as an injured soldier who refuses the idea of a homecoming, instead setting himself about the task of traveling to Argentina to hunt down the Nazi who murdered his French wife.
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Sep 10, 2012 · Film. Cornered. Monday 10 September 2012. Written by TM. Time Out says. Powell's second and definitive attempt to shed his crooner image, as an ex-PoW tracking down the collaborationist...
