The Capture (film)

The Capture is a 1950 thriller film noir directed by John Sturges, starring Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory and Jacqueline White.

Lin Vanner Lew Ayres, is manager of an oil company. The payroll has been stolen in a holdup. His fiance urges him to pursue the suspect in hope that he will gain recognition. Deducing the road the robber may have taken over the border with Mexico, he goes along to intercept him. He shoots a man who shouts back at him and does not raise his hands when challenged by Lin.Too late Lin learns that the man could not raise one arm because it was injured and this was the reason for his shouting rather than complying with the demand he raise his hands he was not guilty of the robbery. Troubled at his action and abandoned by his fiance, Lin takes it on himself to tell the dead mans wife, Ellen Teresa Wright but on arrival he is mistaken for an applicant for a helper to keep the dead mans farm going until his widows son is old enough to take over. ........

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