The Bribe
The story revolves around a war-surplus racket operated from an island off the Central American coast, where federal agent Robert Taylor runs into the only thing steamier than the weather: Ava Gardner.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 6, 2009
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vincent Price, John Hodiak, Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner & Charles Laughton | |
Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard | |
Screenwriting by | Marguerite Roberts | |
Composition by | Miklos Rozsa & Nacio Herb Brown | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph Ruttenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
50%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 85
Rating: C --
It is only the heavies, Vincent Price and Charles Laughton, who keep the film dripping with venom.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The whole thing bogs down in an aged plot and implausible dialogue.
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Associated Press
Description by OLDIES.com:
The Bribe starts with a storm and ends with fireworks - fitting bookends for a crime thriller full of passion, greed and double crosses. The story revolves around a war-surplus racket operated from an island off the Central American coast, where federal agent Robert Taylor runs into the only thing steamier than the weather: Ava Gardner. World-wise, world-weary and fabulous looking, Taylor and Gardner epitomize noir sex appeal. And the consummate actors playing the villains couldn't be more adept at oozing evil. Vincent Price portrays the suave criminal mastermind and Charles Laughton is his henchman, a sweaty wharf rat."
Product Description:
Federal agent Robert Taylor journeys to a mythical South American community, there to break up a war-surplus contraband racket. American playboy Vincent Price is the brains of the outfit, aided and abetted by the disreputable Charles Laughton and John Hodiak. Ava Gardner, Hodiak's wife, takes over for her husband when he's sidelined by a heart condition. Taylor tries to get to the gang boss by romancing Gardner; she eventually shifts loyalties, but Price tries to frame both Gardner and Taylor so that he can get off scot-free. Taylor finally manages to overcome Price during a oversized fireworks display at a local festival. Hampered by the old-fashioned direction of Robert Z. Leonard, THE BRIBE is slow going until its spectacular climax, which was later excerpted in toto and re-used in Steve Martin's detective spoof DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID (82).
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 11,844
- UPC: 883316203873
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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