The perfumed killer

Movie
German title	The perfumed killer
Original title	Railroaded!
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1947
length	72 minutes
Rod
Director	Anthony Mann
script	John C. Higgins , ; Gertrude Walker (story)
production	Charles Reisner
music	Alvin Levin
camera	Guy Roe
cut	Louis Sackin
occupation
	John Ireland : Duke Martin; Sheila Ryan : Rosie Ryan; Hugh Beaumont : Mickey Ferguson; Jane Randolph : Clara Calhoun; Ed Kelly : Steve Ryan; Charles D. Brown : Police Capt. MacTaggart; Clancy Cooper : Detective Jim Chubb; Peggy Converse : Marie Weston; Hermione Sterler : Mrs. Ryan; Keefe Brasselle : Cowie Kowalski; Roy Gordon : Jackland Ainsworth;

The perfumed Killer (original title Railroaded! Is in) black and white twisted American film noir of Anthony Mann from the year 1947th

action

With the help of his lover Clara, the gangster Duke Martin plans to rob an illegal betting shop run by Clara from his boss. The fictitious robbery does not go according to plan: Martin's accomplice Kowalski is shot and a police officer is killed by Martin. After the escape, Martin drops the seriously injured Kowalski and the stolen getaway car in front of a doctor's office and instructs him to tell the police that the car owner, Steve Ryan, is the murderer. After both the dying Kowalski and Clara have identified the completely innocent Ryan as the perpetrator, the latter is arrested.

Ryan's sister Rosie is able to convince Detective Mickey Ferguson that her brother is innocent. Separately, they both go in search of the real culprit. Cornered on two sides, the psychopathic Martin ruthlessly clears several witnesses and confidants out of the way until he is finally caught and shot by Ferguson.

background

The assassin opened in US cinemas on September 25, 1947. In Germany it was not released in cinemas, but first ran on television on October 21, 1988.

criticism

"A fleeting genre story, as a concentrated tension of effective density," found the lexicon of international film .

Web links

The perfumed killer in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , p. 238.
↑ ^a ^b The perfumed killer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 19, 2017 .

[1] Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , p. 238.

[ldif-2] The perfumed killer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 19, 2017 .