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A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.
Jean Gillie
- Margot Shelby
- (as Miss Jean Gillie)
Philip Van Zandt
- Tommy
- (as Phil Van Zandt)
Walden Boyle
- Chaplain
- (uncredited)
Martin Cichy
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
- Trucker at Roadside Inn
- (uncredited)
Franco Corsaro
- Kelsey
- (uncredited)
Madge Crane
- 1st Visitor
- (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
- Driver
- (uncredited)
Virginia Farmer
- Georgia - Margot's Maid
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaMethylene blue is a real chemical compound, discovered in 1896 (by Heinrich Caro), which does indeed have the ability to counteract cyanide poisoning. This property was discovered in 1933 by Dr. Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks of San Francisco. It will not, however, restore life to those who have died from cyanide poisoning.
- GoofsWhen Joe walks into the bar, he pauses by the piano. The piano player raises his left hand off the keyboard to wave to Joe, but the piano music continues as if both his hands are still playing.
- Quotes
Sergeant Joe Portugal: Don't let that face of yours go to your head.
Margot Shelby: Or to yours?
Sergeant Joe Portugal: It wouldn't matter if did... People who use pretty faces like you use yours, don't live very long anyway.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006)
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Resurrection From the Gas Chamber
I have to say that Decoy was one interesting cinematic experience. The story had a lot of holes in it and the plan that was made by the bad guys had a lot of faults in it.
But what makes this film get as high a rating from me as I give it is the presence of Jean Gillie who made only one more film after this one before dying at 33. Just like another British beauty Kay Kendall.
Gillie is one devil woman and she's got one devilish plan to $400,000.00 of stolen loot that Robert Armstrong has hidden away. She's been Armstrong's moll for years, but he's going to the gas chamber. Never mind Gillie's found a way to beat the gas chamber. But it involves getting a doctor and another hoodlum to pull it off.
The key is Dr. Herbert Rudley who supervises the executions. There's a chemical if administered within a short time that can counteract the effects of cyanide. Gillie puts on quite a campaign to vamp Rudley and soon he's just putty. Her other hoodlum boyfriend Edward Norris is amused at Rudley, but he's also thinking with his crotch.
Even Sheldon Leonard playing a cop instead of gangster for once is also not immune to Gillie when she turns it on. If some company could have bottled what Gillie had and sold it to the government it would be quite a formidable weapon.
The script isn't all that great, but Gillie and the cast of sex struck males really put this Monagram classic over.
But what makes this film get as high a rating from me as I give it is the presence of Jean Gillie who made only one more film after this one before dying at 33. Just like another British beauty Kay Kendall.
Gillie is one devil woman and she's got one devilish plan to $400,000.00 of stolen loot that Robert Armstrong has hidden away. She's been Armstrong's moll for years, but he's going to the gas chamber. Never mind Gillie's found a way to beat the gas chamber. But it involves getting a doctor and another hoodlum to pull it off.
The key is Dr. Herbert Rudley who supervises the executions. There's a chemical if administered within a short time that can counteract the effects of cyanide. Gillie puts on quite a campaign to vamp Rudley and soon he's just putty. Her other hoodlum boyfriend Edward Norris is amused at Rudley, but he's also thinking with his crotch.
Even Sheldon Leonard playing a cop instead of gangster for once is also not immune to Gillie when she turns it on. If some company could have bottled what Gillie had and sold it to the government it would be quite a formidable weapon.
The script isn't all that great, but Gillie and the cast of sex struck males really put this Monagram classic over.
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- bkoganbing
- Nov 28, 2011
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- Runtime1 hour 16 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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