Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
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Janis Carter steals this film; she is the femme fatale who is responsible for much of the mayhem that takes place in the movie. Glen Ford (Superman's dad) does a fine job as the pigeon that is set up by everyone in the town except the newspaper boy. Barry Sullivan plays his role with the usual suave faire that he was capable of in several of his other roles. The film has excellent atmosphere and dialogue, and suffer from only one silly occurrence, which I will not mention, as it would be a spoiler. But a high school kid would know better than to commit this mistake. Other than that, the film is very watchable, and better than most other films from this genre. Recommended.
I like Glenn Ford and he does a good act for whatever role he is assigned. Here he plays a guy just trying to get a break which really means a job and he runs into this story. Interesting to note the scene where there is a courtroom procedure and how inadequate justice was and how it was dispensed. It helps you to realize how we got to where we are today as people in court rooms know not what they do and the powers that be don't care either. The plot involves money, love, betrayal and hope all the emotional traits humans suffer from and need. The problem is that all the wrong stuff is too available while the better opportunities take time, patience and some discernment. The ending is satisfying and one can relate to it no problem. You never know what to expect with film noir but you always get atmosphere, intrigue and down to earth surprises. Recommend a snack and a tasty drink to compliment the viewing
FRAMED", Columbia, 1947, 82 min. This the one in which a slightly scruffy Glen Ford (just after "'Gilda", which made him a highly bankable Star) plays a mining engineer down on his luck, drifts into town, gets busted for a brakeless truck driving accident for which he gets thirty days in the local hoosegow, but is bailed out by a mysterious blonde (Janis Carter) for no apparent reason other than that she seems to have eyes for him. If he knew what she really had in mind for him he would have taken the ten days, gladly! As the plot thickens the incredibly alluring Carter really racks poor lovesick Glen over the coals setting him up for an insurance scam where he will be "accidentally killed" in a car crash so she and her real boyfriend (Barry Sullivan) can collect on the policy and scram. Glen barely survives and Janis gets her just deserts but her performance is so subtly-shaded with both hidden menace and obvious allure, and she is just so all-around fantastic in "Framed", that I couldn't help thinking that, all kidding aside, this must have been the Best Performance by an Actress for all of 1947 - - the year that Loretta Young actually got it for "The Farmer's Daughter".
This isn't an exceptional film, but it's a nice little "noirish" picture (it has a good femme fatale, anyway, in Janice Carter) with Glenn Ford as a hard-luck mining engineer (yeah) who rides into a town with no brakes on his truck and soon finds himself in an elaborate setup involving the VP of a local bank (Barry Sullivan). Along the way, he befriends another hard-luck guy, a local miner who's just found a lode of silver (Barry Sullivan).The setup itself is a bit too convenient, too transparent, and we never really believe Ford is going to fall for it. There are scenes where the screenwriter's inventions are laughably inadequate, such as Ford's big discovery of Sullivan's and Carter's tryst via an embroidered robe hanging in the bathroom.Carter is excellent in the film and I wonder why she did not get more attention from audiences and directors.The film does not aim for much, but it's a great bottom of the program picture with a couple good scenes for Ford and Carter.