# Quicksand

Title: Quicksand Summary: After taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control. Directed by: Irving Pichel Actors: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates Production Company: Samuel H. Stiefel Productions Release Date: 24 March 1950 (USA) Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1 Motor mechanic Dan Brady lacks funds for a heavy date with new restaurant cashier Vera, the type whose life's ambition is a mink coat; so he embezzles twenty dollars from his employer with plans to repay it the next day. To make up the shortage, he goes in debt for a hundred. Thereafter, every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets him deeper into financial difficulties that lead to bigger crimes as everyone he meets is out for themselves.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1950
- Runtime: 1 h 18 min
- By: Samuel H. Stiefel Productions
- Genres: Drama, Crime, Romance, Film noir, Mystery
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Quicksand720p1950)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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