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Manhandled [1949]

Year:1949
Country:  USA
Language:English
Genre:Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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Rating:6.0  Rate
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Community: 1 Has Seen


DirectorLewis R. Foster
Selected CastDorothy Lamour as Merl Kramer
 Sterling Hayden as Joe Cooper
 Dan Duryea as Karl Benson
 Irene Hervey as Ruth / Mrs. Alton Bennet


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Twistin
11th Apr 2021
 Rated 6/10
Manhandled could so easily have become a servicable slice of film noir, but instead only gives us a few references to that genre, opting instead to bursts of tongue-in-cheek humor and ham-fisted crime investigations. The film opens with a tasty murder sequence, as a writer (Alan Napier) is explaining to his psychiatrist that this is a recurring dream that has been troubling him. Even in 1949, one would know better than to reveal such a dream to anyone, let alone a shrink with his new secretary (Dorothy Lamour) standing by jotting down notes of the session. That is typical of the implausibility that routinely plagues the storyline. Later, a detective and insurance investigator casually pop pills to test a suspect's story, that taking amphetamines before barbituates will counteract the effect. According to the script, it does. Many lame plot devices later, it's still a fairly entertaining b-movie that doesn't even try to rise any higher than pulp fluff.

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