Illegal

Resource Information

The work Illegal represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Illegal

Statement of responsibility

[presented by] Warner Bros. Pictures ; produced by Frank P. Rosenberg ; screenplay by W.R. Burnett and James R. Webb ; directed by Lewis Allen. The big steal / Turner Entertainment Co. ; [presented by] RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ; produced by Jack J. Gross ; screenplay by Geoffrey Homes & Gerald Drayson Adams ; directed by Don Siegel

Contributor

• Greer, Jane, 1924-2001
• Knowles, Patric, 1911-1995
• Mansfield, Jayne, 1933-1967
• Marlowe, Hugh, 1911-1982
• Mitchum, Robert
• Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973
• Bendix, William, 1906-1964
• Foch, Nina

Subject

• Feature films
• Film noir
• Gangsters -- Drama
• Legal drama
• Malicious accusation -- Drama
• Police -- Mexico -- Drama
• Swindlers and swindling -- Mexico -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Film noir
• Drama

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

• Illegal: Ambitious D.A. Victor Scott zealously prosecutes Ed Clary for a woman's murder. But as Clary walks to the electric chair, Scott receives evidence that exonerates the condemned man. Realizing that he's made a terrible mistake he tries to stop the execution, but is too late. Scott resigns as a prosecutor and enters private practice. He draws the attention of mob kingpin Frank Garland. Scott represents one of Garland's stooges on a murder rap and Scott, in a grand display of courtroom theatrics, wins the case. Embroiled in dirty mob politics, the situation becomes intolerable when his former protege is charged with a murder that seems to implicate her as an informant to the Garland mob
• The big steal: Jane and Duke (alias Capt. Blake) accidently meet in Vera Cruz while chasing flim-flam man Fiske. Soon the local Inspector General (El Gato) is involved. Fiske races across Mexico, pursued by Jane and Duke, trailed by the real Capt. Blake. The crafty Inspector General is waiting for them in Tihuacan but they all give him the slip

Related

• Big steal

Member of

• Film noir classic collection double feature

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Illegal: Music, Max Steiner

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

English dialogue, French subtitles; closed-captioned, English subtitles for the deaf and the hearing impaired

PerformerNote

• Illegal cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield
• The big steal cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro, Don Alvarado, John Qualen

Runtime

160

Series statement

Film noir classic collection double feature

Target audience

general

Technique

live action