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On November 11, 2018, TCM showed "The Threat" (1949) as its selection for its weekly "Noir Alley" show (Saturday night at midnight ET, repeating Sunday morni...
- 7 min
- 1907
- Carney Tynes
The Threat is a tight, efficient little crime programmer, one which represents the best of what Felix E. Feist was capable. It's almost a sketch of a story, built around a seething, terrifyingly contained performance by Charles McGraw as escaped convict Red Kluger. Within the first 10 minutes, we see Kluger kidnapping three people he blames for ...
25 nov 2021 · The Threat (1949): Starring Charles McGraw. The beauty of a picture like this comes with the efficiency of the drama with a prison breakout occurring under the opening credits. Soon we learn a notorious, shadowy criminal named Kluger has broken out of Folsom prison. The convict once vowed to kill both the detective and district attorney who ...
In "The Threat", he's the baddest. Michael O'Shea and Virginia Grey get top billing, but compared to McGraw they're hardly even in the film at all. McGraw is clearly the star of this movie, and he's absolutely terrific as a no nonsense, cold blooded killer. Those piercing eyes of his go right through you.
27 set 2013 · Nobody is safe when Kluger (Charles McGraw) escapes in THE THREAT This is psycho- noir at its toughest, featuring a vicious protagonist whose mean streak only gets worse as time passes. Kluger resorts to violence intuitively and without any notion of self-restraint, routinely dishing out impatient slaps whenever he gets the wrong answer.
The Threat is directed by Felix E. Feist and written by Dick Irving Hyland and Hugh King. It stars Charles McGraw, Virginia Grey, Michael O’Shea, Julie Bishop. Music is by Paul Sawtell and cinematography by Harry J. Wild. Maniac criminal Red Kluger escapes from jail and sets off to kidnap the three people he holds responsible for his ...
The cat-and-mouse game reaches its peak of tension some sixty minutes into this 65-minute thriller. Sparse and unpretentious, The Threat contained far more excitement than many a more expensive, star-studded film noir.
