Portland Exposé

Portland Exposé (1957)

The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's better all around if he does that rather than cause trouble. However, when he starts to see what kind of place his nice little neighborhood bar is turning into, and when one of the mob's goons tries to rape his daughter, he decides to fight them.

Date de sortie
1957-08-11
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (7)
Durée
1 h 12 min
Genres
Crime, Drame
Réalisateur
Harold D. Schuster

Distribution

Anecdotes

Portland Exposé is a 1957 American film noir directed by Harold Schuster and starring Edward Binns and Carolyn Craig. The plot follows a tavern owner in Portland, Oregon who is involved in a struggle for power between two gangs attempting to control the unions. The film was inspired by crime boss Jim Elkins and the McClellan Committee's investigation into Portland's underground criminal ventures in the 1940s and 1950s, which were the subject of an extensive article published in Life magazine in March 1957.

Production

Filming of Portland Exposé took place in Portland and Gresham, Oregon.

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