Loan Shark
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1h 19m
Directed by Seymour Friedman | 80 mins | 1952
George Raft, who rose to fame playing underworld characters in the gangster flicks of the 1930s—and allegedly maintained some underworld connections of his own—begrudgingly proves that he can still pack a punch in this brutal, blue-collar 1952 noir. Raft plays ex-con Joe Gargen, whose attempt to go straight is thrown into disarray when he’s petitioned to infiltrate a merciless loan shark ring that’s preying upon a tire factory’s employees, his brother-in-law among them.
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