Station West (1948)
Action, Mystery, Romance, Western [USA:Passed, 1 h 27 min]
Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Burl Ives
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writers: Frank Fenton, Winston Miller, Luke Short
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 6.8/10 (482 votes)
Awards: 1 nominations
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WESTERN | NOIR
FROM IMDb:
Criminally Overlooked
This excellent Western is really a tough film noir cleverly set in the Old West. The dialogue is sublime, so razor sharp that the actors probably had to bandage their hands after reading the script.
Dick Powell plays his usual sarcastic self in this nice little RKO western about an Army undercover officer investigating a series of gold shipment robberies along with the murder of two soldiers.
He gets embroiled with film noir queen Jane Greer as the manipulative seductress who is up to no good. She trades a lot of quick, snappy one-liners with Powell and of course they fall in love. Good dialog.
Agnes Moorehead appears as the gold mine owner who is romantically involved with the Army Captain of the investigation, Tom Powers.
We also get Raymond Burr as the corrupt but wimpy town lawyer who’s involved on the periphery of the robberies that’s taking place. Burr was a good heavy for about 10 years before he became PERRY MASON. Too bad he doesn’t get to play that kind of character, here. But even as a wimp, he’s still sleazy.
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