He provides the insider information and Webb will mail him a 1/3 of the take, which amounts to $400,000. The temptation of seeing Diane again and how he knows she likes him but won’t give him a tumble until he comes into some serious dough, has him set up with Webb a mail train robbery that his firm insures. She works as a model and is content to be his mistress, as his wife lives in Las Vegas. While questioning him, Joe spots Diane in his company and learns he’s her sugar daddy. the insurance investigators are assigned to a fur robbery at Brissard’s and believe without proof that the robbery was planned by untouchable racketeer Kendall Webb (Gilmore). She mockingly calls him Honest Joe.īack in L.A. Diane thinks Joe’s a sucker to work for $350 a month and says she would never marry anyone who couldn’t support her in style.
#ROADBLOCK REVIEW FREE#
Turbulent flight weather causes them to spend a sex free night together in a hotel room, where we get to know them somewhat as they share the room. to strike it rich, who turns him off by not only being a chiseler but being only interested in a guy with dough. She’s a hardened poor girl from Texas moving to L.A. Joe on the flight home is attracted to good looker Diane Marley (Joan Dixon), who poses as his wife to get half-fare. to receive congratulations– with Harry taking the money. After capturing a bank robber in the Midwest by setting an imaginative trap and recovering all of the loot, they fly separately back to L.A.
#ROADBLOCK REVIEW CRACK#
Joe Peters (Charles McGraw) and Harry Miller (Louis Jean Heydt) work as a crack team of insurance investigators for the Los Angeles firm of Southwest Indemnity. Landau & Geoffrey Homes of a weak man who succumbs to lust and wrap it around the postwar economic boom of the middle-class striving to get further ahead. While co-screenwriters Steve Fisher and George Bricker take the story written by Richard H. The cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca is strictly routine. Harold Daniels directs this pulp story in a workmanlike manner but without inspiration.
It gallantly points out that the root of mankind’s problems are sex and greed. There was nothing special about Roadblock, a typical low-budget film noir of the early 1950s. “A typical low-budget film noir of the early 1950s.” Landau & Geoffrey Homes cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca editor: Robert Golden music: Paul Sawtell cast: Charles McGraw (Joe Peters), Joan Dixon (Diane), Lowell Gilmore (Kendall Webb), Louis Jean Heydt (Harry Miller), Milburn Stone (Egan), Joseph Crehan (Thompson), Steve Roberts (Matt De Vita), Peter Brocco (Bank Heist Man), Joseph Forte (Brissard) Runtime: 73 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Lewis J. (director: Harold Daniels screenwriters: Steve Fisher/George Bricker/from a story by Richard H.
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