The Shakedown (1959 film)

The Shakedown is a 1959 crimedrama film directed by John Lemont, starring Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, and Donald Pleasence.

Augie Cortona, a newly released convict, opens up a photographic studio that serves as a front for pornographic and blackmail activities. He runs into trouble with a rival gangster, and bitter warfare erupts. Scotland Yard tracks down Cortona by employing an undercover female model Linda Castle, to infiltrate the excons setup.TV Guide wrote, the performances are all strong and believable, and fastpaced direction helps to gloss over some of the inadequacies in the predictable script. ........

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