Smooth as Silk (1946)
Directed by Charles Barton
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Psychological Thriller |
Release Date - Feb 1, 1946 (USA - Unknown), Feb 1, 1946 (USA) |
Run Time - 64 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Charles Barton took a break from his Abbott and Costello assignments at Universal to direct the second-feature thriller Smooth as Silk. Kent Taylor plays a slick criminal lawyer adept at all sorts of sneaky legalistic tricks. Taylor's girl friend Virginia Grey jilts him for the more honest Milburn Stone. The lawyer hatches a plan to murder Stone, then to use his knowledge of the law to get off scot-free and implicate someone else for the crime. Though running a scant 65 minutes, Smooth as Silk packs a bigger wallop than some of Universal's more ambitious "A" melodramas of the same period.
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lawyer, girlfriend, murder, revenge, frame-up