Episode 297: Decoy (1946)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Difficult to find on home video for many years, Jack Bernhard's Decoy (1946) stands as a highly off-beat film noir in which Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie) plays the consummate femme fatale with designs on the $400,000 her lover, Frankie (Robert Armstrong), has hidden. She needs to break him out of jail in order to get her hands on the money and does so by allowing him to be executed, only to bring him back from the dead...
Writers Christa Faust and Maitland McDonagh join Mike to discuss this usual film.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:08.3	I wanted money.
0:11.7	Frankie Owens had it.
0:14.3	He took it from a shiny red bank truck.
0:18.6	Two days before Christmas.
0:32.6	$400,000. $400,000. truck two days before Christmas four hundred thousand dollars only before he could take it he had to kill the driver Frankie was in jail now the people of the state of California said he had to die.
0:40.4	But only Frankie knew where the money was hidden.
0:43.5	I'd like to kill you.
0:47.5	Die Chatterby.
0:49.5	What a beautiful word.
0:52.0	Die Chotterby.
0:54.7	Conomy. Oh, you're beautiful margot
0:57.0	so beautiful
0:58.9	you're the only thing I hate to leave
1:01.9	maybe you won't have to
1:04.5	Frankie
1:04.9	what do you mean
1:06.6	listen and don't interrupt
1:09.3	listen and don't interrupt. I'm your host, Mike White.
1:40.3	Joining me once again is Ms. Maitland-McDunna.
1:42.8	Always happy to be here.
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