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Overview
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Writers:
Fletcher Markle (screenplay) and
Vincent McConnor (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
15 December 1952 (USA) more
Tagline:
CAUGHT in the JIGSAW PUZZLE OF A MURDEROUS RACKET.... TORN between two kinds of LOVE!
Plot:
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy investigates a series of murders and uncovers an extremist group. full summary | add synopsis
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Muddled plot more (17 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Franchot Tone | ... | Howard Malloy |
 | Jean Wallace | ... | Barbara Whitfield |
 | Myron McCormick | ... | Charles Riggs |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Angelo Agostini |
| Winifred Lenihan | ... | Mrs. Hartley |
| Doe Avedon | ... | Caroline Riggs (as Betty Harper) |
| Hedley Rainnie | ... | Sigmund Kosterich |
| Walter Vaughan | ... | District Attorney Walker (as Walter Vaughn) |
| George Breen | ... | Knuckles |
| Robert Gist | ... | Tommy Quigley |
| Hester Sondergaard | ... | Mrs. Borg |
| Luella Gear | ... | Pet Shop Owner |
| Alexander Campbell | ... | Pemberton |
| Robert Noe | ... | Waldron |
| Alexander Lockwood | ... | Nichols |
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Also Known As:
Gun Moll (USA) (reissue title)
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70 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Sweden:15 | USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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Cameo: [Burgess Meredith] more
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Pet shop owner:
[carrying a striped cat] Perhaps you'd like this little lady. Miss Whitfield.
Barbara Whitfield:
[holding a black cat] No. thank you. This is the one. Does he have a name?
Pet shop owner:
Yes, it's Bennie - Benvenuto, really.
Barbara Whitfield:
Hmmm. I used to have a cat they called Hadrian the Seventh. We ended up calling him Harry.
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References Der blaue Engel (1930) more
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Jigsaw was an independently produced film based out of New York City that would have us believe there was an American Fascist movement operating out of New York. A kind of Ku Klux Klan for the northeast.
With New York City's polyglot population it does not exactly lend itself to being a good base for such organizations either now or back in 1949. The American public knew it and for that reason it did not buy what Jigsaw was trying to sell.
One of the gimmicks was to have a few big names in some small one or two line roles. Henry Fonda, on Broadway at the time with Mister Roberts is a nightclub waiter, Marlene Dietrich was an entertainer, and John Garfield as a local tough. Sort of like The List of Adrian Messenger later on, but without the makeup.
Jigsaw needed all the help it could get. The plot is muddled beyond belief and the premise is preposterous to begin with. Franchot Tone and the rest of the talented cast are sadly wasted here.