An American working for an oil company in Mexico shoots a man suspected of stealing the payroll; later, he fears that the man was innocent.
The Capture 1950 HD | Crime, drama, thriller, western & noir film by John Sturges | Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright & Victor Jory
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An American working for an oil company in Mexico shoots a man suspected of stealing the payroll; later, he fears that the man was innocent.
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The Capture is a 1950 thriller (genre) film noir.
The story, told in Flashback (narrative) deals with an ex-oil worker driven by guilt at causing the death of an innocent man to find out the truth about a robbery.
Plot
Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres), is manager of an oil company. The payroll has been stolen in a hold-up. His fiance urges him to pursue the suspect in hope that he will gain recognition. Deducing the road the robber may have taken over the border with Mexico, he goes along to intercept him. He shoots a man who shouts back at him and does not raise his hands when challenged by Lin.
Too late Lin learns that the man could not raise one arm because it was injured and this was the reason for his shouting rather than complying with the demand he raise his hands; he was not guilty of the robbery. Troubled at his action and abandoned by his fiance, Lin takes it on himself to tell the dead man’s wife, Ellen (Teresa Wright) – but on arrival he is mistaken for an applicant for a helper to keep the dead man’s farm going until his widow’s son is old enough to take over.
Lin believes that this opportunity has been given to him to make amends for his mistake and he gives up his position to labor as a man-of-all-work on the farm.
With Father Gomez (Victor Jory) by his side, the story that he’s being pursued by the police for another killing is told in a flashback.
Cast
- Lew Ayres as Lin Vanner
- Teresa Wright as Ellen
- Victor Jory as Father Gomez
- Jacqueline White as Luana Ware
- Jimmy Hunt as Ellen’s son
- Barry Kelley as Earl C. Mahoney, Finance Co. V.P.
- Duncan Renaldo as Carlos
- William Bakewell as Herb Tolin, Bolsa Grande Oil
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