Cornered (1945)
Director: Edward Dmytryk · Writers: John Paxton, John Wexley, Ben Hecht
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
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Director
Edward Dmytryk
Cast
Dick Powell
Laurence Gerard 
Walter Slezak
Melchior Incza 
Micheline Cheirel
Mme. Madeleine Jarnac(Laurent) 
Nina Vale
Señora Camargo 
Morris Carnovsky
Manuel Satana 
Edgar Barrier
DuBois, Insurance Man 
Steven Geray
Señor Tomas Camargo 
Jack La Rue
Diego, Hotel Valet 
Gregory Gaye
Perchon, German Banker 
Luther Adler
Marcel Jarnac 
Ellen Corby
Swiss Maid (uncredited) 
Gino Corrado
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Which gives you the insane privilege to blow people to bits? Cornered is directed by Edward Dmytryk and adapted to screenplay by John Paxton from a story by John Wexley. It stars Dick Powell, Walter Slezak and Micheline Cheirel. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Harry J. Wild. Story is set at the end of World War II and finds Powell as demobbed Canadian flier Laurence Gerard. He returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of a group of French Resistance fighters, one of which was his new bride. Learning from his father-in-law that it was a Vichy collaborator named Marcel Jarnac. Gerard refuses to believe the rumour that Jarnac is dead and sets off on a trail that will lead him to Argentina, from where it soon becomes evident that Fascism is alive and well. From the off Powell's intense miserablist Laurence Gerard sets the tone for Dmytryk's no-nonsense picture…
