Quicksand (1950)

Directors

Irving Pichel

Cast

Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre, Taylor Holmes, Art Smith

The story

thumb|right|Mickey Rooney as Dan Brady thumb|right|Peter Lorre as Nick Dramoshag Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney), a young auto mechanic in California, "borrows" $20 ($ today) from the cash register at his job to pay for a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak (Jeanne Cagney), who works at a nearby diner. In a scheme to return the pilfered $20, Dan decides to pay only one dollar as a down payment at a jewelry store for a $100 wristwatch ($ today), a deal that requires him to sign a sales contract to buy the watch over time with regular installment payments. He then promptly goes to a pawnshop where he hocks the watch for $30 cash ($ today),…

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