Decoy (1946) at Palm Springs Cultural Center
Decoy (1946)
Monogram/Warner Bros. D: Jack Bernhard. A disturbed doctor (Herbert Rudley), a dying woman’s (Jean Gillie) confession and a murderer (Robert Armstrong) brought back to life after execution in the gas chamber are but a few of the startling attributes of this bizarre film produced and directed by Jack Bernhard, an underrated Poverty Row artisan (who was married to Gillie). Scripted by Nedrick Young (The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind) from an original story by producer and former festival special guest Stanley Rubin. With: Edward Norris and Sheldon Leonard.
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Monogram/Warner Bros. D: Jack Bernhard. A disturbed doctor (Herbert Rudley), a dying woman’s (Jean Gillie) confession and a murderer (Robert Armstrong) brought back to life after execution in the gas chamber are but a few of the startling attributes of this bizarre film produced and directed by Jack Bernhard, an underrated Poverty Row artisan (who was married to Gillie). Scripted by Nedrick Young (The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind) from an original story by producer and former festival special guest Stanley Rubin. With: Edward Norris and Sheldon Leonard.
Decoy (1946)
Monogram/Warner Bros. D: Jack Bernhard. A disturbed doctor (Herbert Rudley), a dying woman’s (Jean Gillie) confession and a murderer (Robert Armstrong) brought back to life after execution in the gas chamber are but a few of the startling attributes of this bizarre film produced and directed by Jack Bernhard, an underrated Poverty Row artisan (who was married to Gillie). Scripted by Nedrick Young (The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind) from an original story by producer and former festival special guest Stanley Rubin. With: Edward Norris and Sheldon Leonard.
