The story opens up with a woman leaving a beauty shop and a brief talk between the shop owner, Clara Calhoun, (Jane Randolph) and a customer who is leaving the establishment. Clara locks the front door and goes to her living quarters and opens and closes the back door a few times, and all of a sudden two bandits enter her shop and steal five thousand dollars. Clara Calhoun also runs a bookie racket besides being a beautician and the crooks were after her gambling money for the week. There is also a policeman who is shot as he was doing his rounds and one of the crooks is injured by the policeman's gun shot. Rosie Ryan, (Sheila Ryan) has a brother named Steve Ryan, (Ed Kelly) who manages to get railroaded for this crime because he drives a laundry vehicle which was at the scene of the murder and also a U S Navy scarf with his initials on it. John Ireland, (Duke Martin) gives an outstanding performance as a ruthless crook who will shoot anyone at the blink of an eye. Great entertaining film from 1947.
Review of Railroaded!
