Flaxy Martin

Flaxy Martin is a 1949 film noir directed by Richard L. Bare. The crime thriller features Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, among others. The picture was based on a story written by David Lang.

The drama begins with a murder and a screaming witness. The witness to the crime tells the police that she can identify the murderer and will never forget his face. Mob attorney Walter Colby Scott is called by crime boss Hap Richie Douglas Kennedy in the middle of the night to arrange the release of Caesar Jack Overman, one of his mobsters arrested for the murder. After Colby does so he tells his girlfriend, the unscrupulous mobconnected showgirl Flaxy Martin Mayo, that he wants to quit the organization and become respectable.Meanwhile, the syndicate arranges for Peggy Farrar Helen Westcott to falsely testify on behalf of Caesar. After Caesar is cleared of the charges, however, she changes her mind. Flaxy and Caesar go visit Peggy at her apartment to force her into silence, and Caesar ends up killing her. ........

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