The Threat (1949)

The Threat (1949)Killer Red Kluger (Charles McGraw) busts out of Folsom Prison and makes for a bleak desert hideout. But first he makes a violent detour to Los Angeles to kidnap the three people he blames for his ticket to the gas chamber: a cop (Michael O'Shea), the DA (Frank Conroy) and ex girlfriend (Virginia Grey) he believes betrayed him. Before Red gets out of the country, he's going to get even, one sweating, sadistic murder at a time. In this gripping,

subterfuge and assassins adapted for the screen (from Irving Wallace's bestseller) with spice and wit by Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest

Life is a Sunday in the park for Aurelia (Katharine Hepburn)

Michael Connors (Mannix) plays the biz group's front man and spearhead of a sham film of Romeo and Juliet that would have made The Bard put down his quill forever if he had seen it

What Blynn doesn't know is that his exotic discovery

which sends Astaire

Screenplay

The fourth of six films McDowall coproduced and starred in for Monogram Pictures

Arthur Kennedy

Broadway's Gwen Marlowe and Ernest Lane are sweethearts

eventual lovers whose final embrace is preceded by a spectacle packed with hard-riding screen action and soaring melodies

Highlighted by opera legend Lotte Lehmann in her only American film appearance and featuring Broadway star Betty Garrett in her big-screen debut

They stow mom in a travel trailer and hit the road