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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Dark Mountain (1944)

When a young bride (Ellen Drew) finds out her new husband (Regis Toomey) deals in stolen goods and is wanted for murder, she runs off to her ex-boyfriend (Robert Lowery), who is a mountain forest ranger, to hide. But the racketeer has no intention of his wife leaving him. This low budget programmer is barely an hour long which doesn't give it much time to wear out its welcome. It's quick and efficient and moderately entertaining if one isn't too demanding but it's not the kind of film that demands much. Lowery is stalwart, Drew is lovely and Toomey gets a chance to play a rugged villain instead the cop for a change. Competently if unimaginatively directed by William Berke. With Elisha Cook Jr. doing his usual weak gunsel and Eddie Quillan provides the comic relief.

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