The Shakedown (1960)
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This is a routine tale about the vice squad versus pornographer and blackmailer Augie Cortona (Terence Morgan). After the petty criminal gets out of prison, he discovers his old partners in crime are not interested in him anymore, and the prostitution ring he once bossed is controlled by someone else. His solution is to set up a fake photographer's and model's studio during the day that becomes a place where porno photo men can do their work at night, as call girls engage in their trade with unsuspecting customers. The photographs bring in extra lucre through a blackmail scheme -- Cortona makes the hookers' clients pay to keep their activities quiet. As he is building up this racket, a gangland boss is out to get him -- and so is the vice squad. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Terence Morgan - Augie Cortona
- Donald Pleasence - Jessel
- Robert Beatty - Inspector Jarvis
- Gene Anderson - Zena
- John Salew - Arnold
- Dorinda Stevens - Grace
- Larry Burns - 1st Thug
- Charles Lamb - Dinza
- Arthur Lovegrove - Barman
- Neal Arden
- Robert Sansom
- Douglas Bradley-Smith
- Frank Hawkins
- Joan Haythorne - Miss Ogilvie
- Diana Chesney
- Hazel Court - Mildred Hyde
- Bill Owen - Spettigue
- Harry H. Corbett - Gollar
- Eddie Byrne - George
- Georgina Cookson - Miss Firbank
- Jack Lambert - Sgt. Kershaw
- Jack Taylor - 3rd Thug
- Linda Castle - Sylvia
- Timothy Bateson - Estate Agent
- Angela Douglas
- Paul Whitsun-Jones - Fat Drinker
- Leila Williams
- Larry Taylor - Thug
- Edward Judd
- Director(s):
- John Lemont
- Writer(s):
- John Lemont, Leigh Vance
- Producer(s):
- Norman Williams
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