Short Cut to Hell

IMDb link: 0050964
IMDb rating: 6.1 (512 votes)
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director: James Cagney
Cast: William Bishop, Robert Ivers, Yvette Vickers, Georgann Johnson and others

Release date: 1 Sep 1957
Release year: 1957
Runtime: 89 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: hired killer, asleep on someone's shoulder, payroll robbery, woman bound and gagged, calling someone fatso, double cross, currency serial number, passenger train, double murder, wax cylinder audio recording

Plot:

A professional hitman is hired by a friend to commit two murders. His friend pays him off in what turns out to be stolen money, and the police soon trace the money to him. On the run, he kidnaps the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of his pursuit and threatens to kill her unless the hunt is called off.

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