711 Ocean Drive

711 Ocean Drive is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Joseph M. Newman. The drama features Edmond OBrien, Joanne Dru and Otto Kruger.

Granger accepts and also takes an interest in Walters attractive assistant, Trudy Dorothy Patrick, but she is arrested. Grangers new method of getting track information to the bookies makes him invaluable. He threatens to cut Walters off unless he is made apartner. Walters gives in. When Walters tries to collect from a bookie who owes him, the bookie kills first Walters, then himself. Granger takes control of the wire service, making him a target for Lieutenant Wright Howard St. John of the Los Angeles Police.East Coast mobster Larry Mason Don Porter is sent by boss Karl Stevens Otto Kruger to persuade Granger to join the Syndicate. He travels west with his wife Gail Joanne Dru. Granger decides to accept a 5050 split with his new partners. Some of the independent bookies do not like the new arrangement and the extraprotection fee and refuse to go along. They are roughed up by Syndicate goons. ........

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