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.
- (2.5K)
- Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
- Edward Dmytryk
- 1946-03-11
Cornered! is a 2009 American slasher film written and directed by Daniel Maze, co-written by Darrin Grimwood, and starring Steve Guttenberg and James Duval. The ensemble cast features Ellia English, Peter Story, Elizabeth Nicole, and Eduardo Antonio Garcia.
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.
- Edward Dmytryk, Ruby Rosenberg, Leslie Urbach
- Dick Powell
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.
- (1K)
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Edward Dmytryk
Cornered is directed by Edward Dmytryk and adapted to screenplay by John Paxton from a story by John Wexley. It stars Dick Powell, Walter Slezak and Micheline Cheirel. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Harry J. Wild.
Cornered (1945) brings Dick Powell back to the film noir screen, and opens with him being refused a passport between London and France. Undeterred, Powell slams his hands in his pockets, storms out of the passport office, and promptly swims the English Channel.
