Slightly Scarlet (1956 film)

Slightly Scarlet is a 1956 American film noir based on James M. Cains novel Loves Lovely Counterfeit. The movie was directed by Allan Dwan, and the films cinematography was shot in widescreen by noted cameraman John Alton.

The ruthless Solly Caspar is fighting to retain control of Bay Citys criminal activities when Frank Jansen Kent Taylor, an honest man and mayoral hopeful, begins a strong anticrime campaign. Caspar tasks his righthand man Ben Grace to dig up some dirt on the candidate and ruin his chances of election.Ben follows the candidates sexy redheaded secretary, June Lyons Rhonda Fleming, to a jail where shes picking up her equally scarlettressed and sexy kleptomaniac sister Dorothy Arlene Dahl. June is Jansens girlfriend as well, but their relationship is still only social, and theres nothing to work withbut in the process of following her, Ben has become attracted to June. ........

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