Loophole (1954 film)

Loophole is a 1954 blackandwhite Bmovie film noir crime drama starring Barry Sullivan and Dorothy Malone. The film was directed by former editor Harold D. Schuster. Mary Beth Hughes plays the movies femme fatale.

Despite many setbacks, Donovan tries to clear his name but even his wife Malone doesnt think that hell be able to do it. Turns out the money was heisted by a phony bank examiner and his mole working at the bank Hughes.Film critic Dennis Schwartz explains why the film is considered a film noir The poignancy of the story is in how an innocent, hardworking person like Mike, could have his whole life turned upsidedown over an incident where he makes an error in judgment. When he tells his boss Lummis about it, he has no explanation why he didnt report it immediately except he couldnt understand how so much money was missing. This slipup is why Mike becomes a noir protagonist, though he doesnt have the dark side to his character this genre usually calls for...and his life turns into hell when, even though he is not charged with anything, the bonding company that must insure him cancels his certification and the bank is forced to fire him. Not only cant he get bonded so he can get another tellers job, but the bond company puts a meanspirited insurance investigator on his tail, Gus Slavin Charles McGraw. Slavin is convinced Mike is guilty and tails him everywhere, and when Mike gets a job he informs the boss on him and Mike is always promptly fired. ........

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