The Shakedown

Models were the bait for BLACKMAIL!

Overview:

After being released from prison, Augie Cortona sets up a blackmail operation, fronted by a model agency. When the authorities get wind of his activities, they send in an undercover police woman, but when she is recognised, the police need to move in on the operation, before Cortona can take his revenge.

Released: 1960-01-01

Duration: 01:32:00

Genre: Crime, Drama

Keywords: Tied In Sack, Female Police Officer, Blackmail, ...

Director: John Lemont

Writer: Leigh Vance, John Lemont

Cast: Terence Morgan, Donald Pleasence, Hazel Court, ...

Director: John Lemont

Cast: Terence Morgan Donald Pleasence Hazel Court Bill Owen Robert Beatty Harry H. Corbett Gene Anderson Jackie Collins

Genre: Crime Drama

Keywords: Tied In Sack Female Police Officer Blackmail Ex Convict Undercover Cop Gangster Criminal

Description

Augie Cortona, a recently released convict, opens up a photographic studio and modelling school that serves as a front for a service enabling amateurs to take erotic photographs while blackmailing some of the participants. Meanwhile, a longstanding feud with a rival gangster who took over his operation while he was imprisoned continues. Scotland Yard decide to investigate Cortona by sending an officer, Mildred Eyde, to operate undercover by enrolling as a student model. Cortona is smitten by Eyde and begins to woo her.

Eyde's cover is blown when another criminal recognizes her. As Cortona decides what to do with her, police raid the studio in order to rescue her. Cortona tries to flee but is shot by a waiting blackmail victim who has been pushed too far by repeated threats of exposure and demands for ever more money. As Cortona is dying, Mildred kneels down to comfort him. With his last breath, Cortona says "Bitch". Mildred is led away, upset.

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