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The moment JANIS CARTER pays GLENN FORD's fine for driving recklessly you know the two are going to meet their fate together in FRAMED. At this point in his career, Ford seemed to be specializing in playing men hooked by a dame at first glance and willing to suffer the consequences.
FRAMED is a neat little crime melodrama from Columbia in which the title almost gives away the plot. Carter and BARRY SULLIVAN devise a crooked scheme to get their hands on a quarter of a million dollars, involving GLENN FORD and a bank robbery.
JANIS CARTER resembles a blonde version of Ann Sheridan as she plays a cunning femme fatale with silky ease planning to make mining engineer Ford take the fall for an embezzlement.
Like all good noirs, there's a final plot twist that comes as a surprise and confirms suspicion that Carter was even more of a schemer than she let on.
Well worth seeing--maintains taut suspense all the way. And, of course, Ford's moral fiber wins out over Carter's amoral seduction.
score 6/10
Doylenf 23 January 2007
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