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Hit and Run is a 1957 American drama film noir directed by Hugo Haas starring Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas and Vince Edwards.
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Directed by | Hugo Haas |
Produced by | Hugo Haas |
Written by | Herbert O. Phillips Hugo Haas |
Starring | Cleo Moore Hugo Haas Vince Edwards |
Music by | Franz Steininger |
Cinematography | Walter Strenge |
Edited by | Stefan Arnsten |
Production company | Hugo Haas Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The movie was Moore's final film appearance; she gained popularity earlier in the 1950s, in B-movie film noirs, most released by Columbia Pictures, for which Moore was a contract player.
Screenplay
Gus Hilmer, a moneyed garage and junkyard owner, falls in love with and marries a showgirl named Julie, who's many years younger than he, and this causes tension between Hilmer and Frankie, a young auto mechanic whom he has befriended.
Julie begins a romantic affair with Frankie, then plots with him to get rid of her husband. On a dark, remote road, Frankie runs down Gus with a car, killing him. He and Julie are free to be together and run the garage, or at least they think they are until Gus's twin brother turns up.