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World's Most Beautiful Bait!
Following World War II, ex-G.I. Stan Fabian opens a drive-in restaurant, where his girlfriend, Joanie, is a car hop. They want to get married someday, but less-than-stellar business puts a hold on that. One day, Joanie's ne’er-do-well brother Frank blows into town with a money-making scheme. She's against it, but inveterate gambler Stan finds the promise of riches too seductive to resist.
CinemaSerf
Nov 14, 2022 · via TMDB
This is just a bit too convoluted for it's own good. It's all about a scheme to retrieve some gold from Germany buried at the end of WWII by Richard Denning ("Frank"). Frank Lovejoy ("Stan") and his gal Mari Blanchard ("Joanie") are the pair trying to manoeuvre their mark into taking them back to find the loot, but they also they have an ulterior motive of which poor old "Frank" is unaware. It's got a few twists and turns to keep the plot moving, but much of the story seems to exist in order to perpetuate itself, rather than offer us anything to get our teeth into and after a while it becomes a bit dull. The performances are weak, the dialogue really wordy and I found the music got on my nerves a bit, too. Director Nathan Juran usually had a good eye for a story and phototography at his best; this isn't it.
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Frank Lovejoy
Stanley E. 'Stan' Fabian
Mari Blanchard
Joanie Daniel
Richard Denning
Frank Daniel
John Mylong
Herr Koenig
Harry Lauter
Sgt. Mike Jancoweizc
Steven Ritch
Ramon 'Ray' Torres
Louis Merrill
Herr Schmitt (as Lou Merril)
Vince Barnett
Ed - Stan's Partner in Drive-In (uncredited)
George Cisar
Don Gillen (uncredited)
Judy Clark
Singer (uncredited)
Roy Gordon
Richard V. Atherton (uncredited)
John Hart
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