THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE-1947 –Excellent, if far-fetched film noir (so what else is new?) featuring Lawrence Tierney as a smooth talking, murderous forger. He convinces innocent newlywed James North to pick up two stranded women (Nan Leslie and Betty Crawford) and hide out for the night at an absent friend’s house. Things go from bad to worse for North and Tierney nearly gets away by stealing his identity!
As in BORN TO KILL Tierney just about carries the whole thing as the lead character despite being the bad guy!
Director Felix E. Feist does a good job with the low budget setting. He later wrote and directed DONOVAN’S BRAIN (the second version Curt Siodmak’s novel) and then when into TV. Good guy North had been in CHARLIE CHAN IN RIO, MARGIN FOR ERROR, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT and a few other films but after DEVIL he made only one more.
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