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Framed

- "I didn't ask you to come into my life!"

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

Release Date : 1947-05-25

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Columbia Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Mike Lambert

Original Name : Glenn Ford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paula Craig

Original Name : Janis Carter

Gender : Female

Character Name : Steve Price

Original Name : Barry Sullivan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jeff Cunningham

Original Name : Edgar Buchanan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Beth

Original Name : Karen Morley

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jack Woodworth

Original Name : Jim Bannon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Original Name : Art Smith

Gender : Male

Character Name : Girl in Coffee Shop (uncredited)

Original Name : Lillian Wells

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Stanley Andrews

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Walter Baldwin

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Bailey

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Eugene Borden

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Al Bridge

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Paul E. Burns

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Charles Cane

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : David Fresco

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Nacho Galindo

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Martín Garralaga

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Fred Graff

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Kellard

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Philip Kieffer

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Kenneth MacDonald

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Cy Malis

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Gene Roth

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Mabel Smaney

Gender : Female

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Harry Strang

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : William Tubbs

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Sid Tomack

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Michael Towne

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Cecil Weston

Gender : Female

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Crane Whitley

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Mel Wixon

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Barbara Wooddell

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

I'm right back where I started. Nowhere!! Framed (AKA: Paula) is directed by Richard Wallace and adapted to screenplay by Ben Maddow from a story written by Jack Patrick. It stars Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan and Edgar Buchanan. Music is by Marlin Skiles and cinematography by Burnett Guffey. Mike Lambert (Ford), down on his luck and fed up of getting nowhere in life, meets sultry waitress Paula Craig (Carter) and things will either get better or worse? There's a road sign in this that grabs the attention, it reads DANGEROUS CURVES! Now that initially is in reference to a perilous road - with roads featuring prominently as dangerous parts of the play - but it quite easily could be, and in all probability is, a sneaky reference to Janis Carter's femme fatale. Paula Craig in Carter's hands dominates the film, not that Ford or Sullivan are pointless fodder, but it is both the actress and her character's show. After a burst of pacey excitement opens the pic, action moves on to a cafe, from where we are introduced to Guffey's talents, from this point on almost everything is atmospherically shot. Slats and shads, lamps and cell bars, all get the Guffey lens treatment that's sitting superbly with the unfolding psychological dynamics. Very early on we are delivered two characters who basically are a cheater and a viper, while the main man of our story is a guy who's struggling with his identity in life. He also likes a drink, but with that comes memory loss, which is never a good thing when you are holed up in a noirville town. Stripping it back for examination you find the story is very simple, which is surprising and a little disappointing given the screenplay writer also did The Asphalt Jungle. Yet the characters and the actors performances, helped by some classy tech work, more than compensates - that is until the finale, which for some (me for sure) is a bad choice for character tone. But it's not a film killer, for we get everything from orgasmic glee shown in the process of a callous crime being committed, to characters either in need of a soul or facing their days of judgement. 7/10

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-07-07

Glenn Ford is the penniless mining engineer "Mike" with a penchant for the whisky, who arrives in a small town and is soon ensnared in the intriguing web of "Paula" (Janis Carter) who wants to use him to help her and bank manager boyfriend "Price' (Steve Sullivan) to hoodwink the genial old prospector "Cunningham" (Edgar Buchanan) who might just have discovered a large vein of silver. Things don't quite go to plan for our femme-fatale as she really starts to fall for "Mike", and when her boyfriend is found coshed to death, and the old man is charged (we know all along who did what to whom) - some tough choices have to be made by both of them. It's an OK film, this - but it all just takes too long to get going; the story moves along in slightly repetitive fits and starts before an ending I found rather underwhelming. There isn't much chemistry between Ford or Carter - whose character starts out strongly but reverts to a rather flimsy type by the end - and but for a few typically lively efforts from Buchanan, this film is pretty unmemorable.