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Guilty Bystander

Guilty Bystander

1950, Movie, 1h 31min

Set in a seamy milieu of cheap flophouses and skid-row social castoffs, this evocatively scuzzy B noir stars Zachary Scott, in one of his rawest and most compelling performances, as Max Thursday, a washed-up former cop who has descended into a life of alcoholic desperation. When his ex-wife (Faye Emerson) reappears with the news that their son has been kidnapped, Thursday must find a way to stay off the sauce long enough to track him down. By filming largely on location in New York City, director Joseph Lerner imbues GUILTY BYSTANDER with a sense of unnerving realism.

Country: United States

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Elliott Sullivan,

J. Edward Bromberg

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Guilty Bystander include White Heat, The Night of the Hunter, And Then There Were None, Rashomon, Out of the Past, The Big Combo.

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Guilty Bystander was released in theaters on April 21, 1950.