711 Ocean Drive (1950)1h42
Crime
Director Joseph M. Newman
Also directed This Island Earth, Dangerous Crossing, Pony Soldier, and 39 more
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.
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Cast
Edmond O'Brien
Joanne Dru
Otto Kruger
Barry Kelley
Dorothy Patrick
Don Porter
Howard St. John
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