A Man Betrayed (1941 film)

A Man Betrayed
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Directed byJohn H. Auer
Written byJack Moffitt
Screenplay byIsabel Dawn
Story byTom Kilpatrick
Produced byArmand Schaefer
StarringJohn Wayne
Frances Dee
Edward Ellis
CinematographyJack A. Marta
Edited byCharles Craft
Music byMort Glickman
Paul Sawtell
Production
company
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release dates
  • March 7, 1941 (1941-03-07) (Los Angeles)
  • March 26, 1941 (1941-03-26) (New York)
[1][2]
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

A Man Betrayed is a 1941 American dramatic comedy film directed by John H. Auer and starring John Wayne, Frances Dee and Edward Ellis.[3] It was produced and distributed by Republic Pictures. In the United Kingdom, the film was released as Citadel of Crime.

Plot

Bucolic lawyer Lynn Hollister fights big-city corruption when he tries to prove that politician Tom Cameron is a crook. Hollister is in love with the politician's daughter Sabra.[4]

Cast

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Thomas M. Pryor wrote: "With more action and less talk, 'A Man Betrayed' might have amounted to something better than just a torpid expose of a political boss. For the new film ... reveals nothing new about the workings of machine politics, nor does it afford any suspense as to what will ultimately happen ... The plot is talked away in the first fifteen minutes and, except for a lively election-day skirmish between rival mobsters and graveyard voters, there just isn't anything to arrest one's attention."[2]

The Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote: "As though embossed, a character occasionally stands out on the screen from among the welter of rubber-stamp types. John Wayne manages such a characterization in 'A Man Betrayed.' ... The story is engrossing particularly from this characterization ... Otherwise the yarn is one of those murder things with crooks in high and low places, and the hero bent on a whodunit mission to the big city."[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Wayne Acts 'Man Betrayed'". Los Angeles Times. March 8, 1941. p. 9.
  2. ^ a b Pryor, Thomas M. (March 27, 1941). "The Screen in Review". The New York Times. p. 29.
  3. ^ Hal Erickson (2015). "A Man Betrayed". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 19, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  4. ^ Hal Erickson. "A Man Betrayed (1941) - John H. Auer - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved January 12, 2016.

Bibliography

  • Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.


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