For some reason, DECOY was put on the shelf and never really surfaced enough on television for all of us oldie addicts. Finally, it has been resurrected and added to a box set with other film noirs, special thanks to Warner Brothers.
This is actually a first; genuine noir slash horror as it deals with bringing a dead gangster back to life with a revolutionary drug. Actually, the drug is real (without going into specifics), but cannot restore life, especially someone who just died in the electric chair. If you're a true movie buff, this has shades of the Boris Karloff classic, THE WALKING DEAD (1936).
British actress Jean Gillie plays the proverbial dragon lady, ready to get her greedy hands on a fortune in cash stashed away by gangster Robert Armstrong. Gillie, at the time, was married to director Jack Bernhard who met her in Europe during WW II. Also look for Sheldon Leonard, this time playing a cynical police detective instead of the usual slick gangsta'.
The opening and closing scenes are what B films are all about, and then some. An unusual trip into the macabre and quite well produced by Monogram Pictures, whose specialty of the house were westerns and the Bowery Boys series.
A thank you to TCM for routinely showing this gem.
This is actually a first; genuine noir slash horror as it deals with bringing a dead gangster back to life with a revolutionary drug. Actually, the drug is real (without going into specifics), but cannot restore life, especially someone who just died in the electric chair. If you're a true movie buff, this has shades of the Boris Karloff classic, THE WALKING DEAD (1936).
British actress Jean Gillie plays the proverbial dragon lady, ready to get her greedy hands on a fortune in cash stashed away by gangster Robert Armstrong. Gillie, at the time, was married to director Jack Bernhard who met her in Europe during WW II. Also look for Sheldon Leonard, this time playing a cynical police detective instead of the usual slick gangsta'.
The opening and closing scenes are what B films are all about, and then some. An unusual trip into the macabre and quite well produced by Monogram Pictures, whose specialty of the house were westerns and the Bowery Boys series.
A thank you to TCM for routinely showing this gem.