The Good Die Young (1954)
Two deadly weapons. Burning lips! ... Hot lead! ...
Genre : Crime
Runtime : 1H 40M
Director : Lewis Gilbert
Writer : Vernon Harris, Lewis Gilbert
Synopsis
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
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Paratroopers Captain 'Rip' Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake are mysteriously ordered to travel to Washington, DC. When Drake learns that he is to be awarded the Medal of Honor, he disappears before newspaper photographers can take his picture. Murdock follows the clues and tracks him down, where he learns Drake is dead. Further investigations reveal unexpected twists. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out whatever he can. He falls in love with Coral whose husband Johnny is supposed to have killed.
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A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
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