Red Light
THERE'S TROUBLE AHEAD!
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Produced by Roy Del Ruth Productions, Pioneer Pictures Corporation
A noir-inflected crime thriller built on revenge, murder, and obsessive pursuit, anchored by the spiritual irony of a Bible as both murder clue and moral reckoning.
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
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