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Dark Mountain

Dark Mountain

1944Movie⏱️ 56mApproved
CrimeDramaFilm-NoirMysteryRomance
5.4
IMDB Rating
424 votes

A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help.

Director
William Berke
Writers
Paul Franklin, Charles F. Royal, Maxwell Shane
Stars
Robert Lowery, Ellen Drew, Regis Toomey
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 18
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Robert Lowery
Robert Lowery
as Don Bradley
Ellen Drew
Ellen Drew
as Kay Downey
Regis Toomey
Regis Toomey
as Steve Downey
Eddie Quillan
Eddie Quillan
as Willie Dinsmire
Elisha Cook Jr.
Elisha Cook Jr.
as Whitey
Ralph Dunn
Ralph Dunn
as Chief Sanford
Walter Baldwin
Walter Baldwin
as Uncle Sam Bates
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Rose Plumer
as Aunt Pattie Bates
Virginia Sale
Virginia Sale
as Aletha Bates
Byron Foulger
Byron Foulger
as Harvey Bates

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Angeles National Forest, California, USA
Production
Pine-Thomas Productions

🏷️ Keywords

murderwoman arrestednews headlinepolice investigationlie

🎯 Categories

Film NoirCrimeDramaMysteryRomance

⭐ Featured Review

A time-passer
by planktonrules2012-10-12
4/10

""Dark Mountain" is a super-cheap B-movie from Pine-Thomas Productions ( a subsidiary of Paramount). Being a cheap B, it clocks in at under 60 minutes and stars relatively unknown actors--Robert Lowery, Ellen Drew and Regis Toomey. Eddie Quillan is on hand to provide unnecessary comic relief. The film begins with a park ranger (Lowery) asking his girlfriend (Drew) to marry him. The trouble is, the sap doesn't know that she just married another guy (Toomey). What she doesn't realize is that her new sweetie is actually a mobster--and a very nasty one at that. She finds out th..."

💡 Did You Know?

The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

📖 Synopsis

A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help.