Riffraff (1947 film)

RiffRaff is a 1947 blackandwhite film starring Pat OBrien, Anne Jeffreys and Walter Slezak. Considered a minor film noir entry more in the adventure genre, it was directed by Ted Tetzlaff, who also directed The Window 1949 and worked as a cinematographer for over 100 films, including another successful suspense film, Alfred Hitchcocks Notorious 1946. The music was composed by Roy Webb and Joan Whitney.

Hasso hires private investigator Dan Hammer Pat OBrien to be his bodyguard for a couple of days. While Hammer is changing, Hasso secretly pins the map to Hammers bulletin board.Hammer receives an urgent summons from oil executive Walter Gredson Jerome Cowan, so he arranges to meet Hasso later at his hotel room. Gredson hires Hammer to find Hasso and the map, which shows the locations of unregistered oil wells in Peru that his company has bought. ........

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