# Johnny Stool Pigeon 1949 ★★★ Crime/Film-Noir \[1:15:13\] HD

Johnny Stool Pigeon is a 1949 American film-noir/crime film, directed by William Castle and starring Howard Duff, Shelley Winters,Tony Curtis and Dan Duryea. In San Francisco, during the 1940s, US Treasury agents interrupt an illicit exchange between a sailor and a drug dealer. During the shootout, the sailor is killed but the drug dealer escapes. Later on, the agents pick up the trail of the fugitive drug dealer but arrive at his apartment too late. The dealer lays dead, permanently silenced by a hired hit-man. The only thing the agents have is an address book found on the dead drug dealer's body. Among the clues there is one that seems to be promising: the address of a shady Canadian trading company based in Vancouver. Treasury agent George Morton decides to visit a convict in Alcatraz and solicit his help in infiltrating the underworld. Morton knows that convincing the imprisoned criminal Johnny Evans to become a stool pigeon for the Feds won't be easy. But Evans is Morton's only hope to infiltrate the underworld and crack the case. When the film was released, the film critic for The New York Times, gave the film a tepid review. "Despite a serious attempt at authenticity it is merely a brisk cops-and-smugglers melodrama, which follows an obvious pattern and is fairly strong on suspense and short on originality and impressive histrionics". Howard Duff who has had plenty of experience as a gumshoe both on the radio and in films, is appropriately self-effacing, hard and…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1949
- Runtime: 1 h 15 min
- By: William Castle
- Genres: Crime, Film noir
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/johnny-stool-pigeon-1949)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- US copyright record: Its uploader marked it public domain; the US Copyright Office's records show its copyright renewed on 18 November 1976 by Universal Pictures (PWH) ([Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, vol. 30 (1976), p. 94, renewal R646689](https://archive.org/details/1976motionpictur3301213libr/page/n251))
- 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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