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Release Date: 1941

Cast: Glenda Farrell, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Diana Lewis, Charles Dingle, Patricia Dane, Lana Turner, Henry O'Neill, Robert Sterling, Barry Nelson, Robert Taylor

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Melodrama, Black-and-white, Film noir, Crime Drama

Johnny Eager is a 1941 film noir starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner. Van Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film is featured in the comedy spoof Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). Johnny Eager (Robert Taylor) masquerades as a taxi driver for his gullible parole officer, A.J. Verne (Henry O'Neill), but in reality, he is the ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate. Verne introduces him to socialite Lisbeth "Liz" Bard, a sociology student. Johnny and Liz are attracted to each other, but then he discovers that she is the stepdaughter of his longtime nemesis,... MORE

Johnny Eager is a 1941 film noir starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner. Van Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film is featured in the comedy spoof Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). Johnny Eager (Robert Taylor) masquerades as a taxi driver for his gullible parole officer, A.J. Verne (Henry O'Neill), but in reality, he is the ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate. Verne introduces him to socialite Lisbeth "Liz" Bard, a sociology student. Johnny and Liz are attracted to each other, but then he discovers that she is the stepdaughter of his longtime nemesis, John Benson Farrell (Edward Arnold). As a crusading prosecutor, Farrell was responsible for sending Johnny to prison, and now as the district attorney, he has gotten an injunction preventing Johnny's expensive dog racing track from opening. Johnny decides to use Liz as leverage against her stepfather. When she comes to see him, he has Julio (Paul Stewart), one of his underlings, burst in and pretend to try to kill him. During the faked struggle, Julio drops his gun. Lisbeth picks it up and shoots Julio when he seems to have the upper hand. Johnny then hustles her out of the room before she can LESS