Breakdown (1952)
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Low-budget Realart Films managed to pick up an above-average property when it secured the screen rights to the Robert Abel play The Samson Slasher. Retitled Breakdown, the story concerns a heavyweight boxer, played by William Bishop. Framed for murder, Bishop is sent to prison, but is released after… More Low-budget Realart Films managed to pick up an above-average property when it secured the screen rights to the Robert Abel play The Samson Slasher. Retitled Breakdown, the story concerns a heavyweight boxer, played by William Bishop. Framed for murder, Bishop is sent to prison, but is released after a few years on good behavior. Putting two and two together (no mean feat when you're wearing boxing gloves), Bishop surmises that the real killer is linked up in some way with his girl friend Anne Gwynne. Richard Benedict, a real-life boxer who turned actor in the mid-1940s, appears in the supporting cast as "Punchy." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- Drama
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Sean Axmaker, Seanax.com
There isn't much style to this stage adaptation but it moves along at a good clip and leaves more casualties than you might expect.
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Cast
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Ann Richards
as June Hannum
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William Bishop
as Terry Williams
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Anne Gwynne
as Candy Allen
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Sheldon Leonard
as Nick Samson
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Wally Cassell
as Pete Samson
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Richard Benedict
as Punchy
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John Vosper
as Judge Hannum
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Roy Engel
as Al Bell
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Joe McTurk
as Longshot
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Norman Rainey
as Doc
- Mikel Conrad
- Lila Graham
