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Decoy is a 1946 American film noir starring Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, and Sheldon Leonard. Directed by Jack Bernhard, it was produced by him and Bernard Brandt as a Jack Bernhard Production, with a screenplay by Nedrick Young based on an original story by Stanley Rubin.
Decoy: Directed by Jack Bernhard. With Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley. 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.
Suffering from a fatal gunshot wound, Dr. Lloyd Craig struggles to Margot Shelby's apartment and shoots her before dying himself. While she is dying, Margot recounts for police detective Joe Portugal the events that led to her shooting: After Margot's boyfriend, Frankie Olins, hides the $400,000 he stole in a bank robbery, he is arrested.
Overview. A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies. Jack Bernhard. Director. Nedrick Young. Screenplay. Reviews. Written by on November 20, 2013.
This gripping, gritty film noir begins as a mortally wounded physician staggers into the apartment of a vicious vixen, the leader of a notorious gang of thieves. Shots ring out, and the police rush to the scene. Sergeant Leonard gets there to find the doctor dead, and the woman failing fast.
Gangster Frank Olins is to die in the gas chamber much to the dismay of his girlfriend Margot Shelby as he is carrying the secret of the location of $400,000 with him. Margot seduces gangster Jim Vincent to get him to engineer the removal of Olins' body from the prison immediately after he dies in the gas chamber.
Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie) is the most fatale of all of the femmes, a woman who, the moment her older, gangster boyfriend (Robert Armstrong as Frankie Olins) robs an armored car and manages to hide the money before he gets arrested, dedicates her life to getting that paper.
