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Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney.
Counterplot
1959 Directed by Kurt Neumann
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01 Oct 1959
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From J Harold Odell Productions comes a classic double cross drama that is not noir produced & directed by Kurt Neumann. It 🌟 s Forest Tucker & Allison Hayes & Gerald Milton
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So-so noir about a guy falsely accused of murder hiding out in my backyard, Puerto Rico. Nice to see how many locations I spotted looked back in 1959.
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2016 Cult Movie Challenge: Week 15
Thankfully, this isn't my primary choice for week 15 of the Cult Movie Challenge.
I watched this movie because 1) it fit for Film Noir Week, 2) I had access to it, 3) it doesn't many views to it, and 4) it has Allison "50ft. Woman" Hayes in it.
That's pretty much where all of the interest ends. I didn't really care about the story or characters, it meanders from scene to scene, and eventually it just turned into background noise while I did other things.
Allison Hayes is beautiful as usual, and that's about it. If you're looking for an underrated noir, I recommend Where Danger Lives. This one is forgettable by the time "The End" shows up.
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Noirvember 2023. Plodding film noir featuring a future star of the silly 1960s sitcom F-Troop (Forrest Tucker) as rather ineffectual noir hero Brock Miller on the run for murder and hiding out in Puerto Rico with a really annoying kid while he tries reunite with his flame Connie (Allison Hayes). Took forever to get where it was going and when it finally got there I had lost all interest.
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I for the life of me cannot remember what inspired me to put this in my watchlist or how I even became aware of it. A sub par noir lost in the cracks of film yesterday that’s real highlight is a beautifully captured San Juan. A victim by the tropes that the genre is loved for but paced horrendously. Can’t say I’ll really remember much about Counterplot.
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In sleepy San Juan PR, a guy (Forrest Tucker) is on the run from a murder charge in NYC, hiding out in a shack on the beach. His old flame (Allison Hayes) comes to the island to help him; she's a lounge singer.
Can our hero expose the real killer (wooden Richard Verney) and clear his name? Or will he flee to South America?
On the plus side, we get some nice location shots of Puerto Rico and it's an unusual (baffling?) story that kept me interested, with a serviceable third act. But it also feels cobbled together from a bunch of spare parts, and the production values are TV level.
With Jackie Wayne as a streetwise little boy who's also trying to help. Gerald Milton is on hand as a portly talkative urbane lawyer. (Didn't get the title.)
So much jibber-jabber, so little action--but competent.
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While it's not as as action-y as the poster suggests, COUNTERPLOT's a fun low-budget flick that goes by pretty fast. If anything, it's more of a coming of age story that happens to take place in a crime thriller. But perhaps that's simply because the child actor, Jackie Wayne, steals the movie.
With a plot mired in characters that'll betray each other at the drop of a hat, the story could have easily ended up hopelessly mangled. Instead, it's surprisingly easy to follow--perhaps a little too easy, in some cases. The acting ranges from good to average, though the bit parts are a bit wooden in places. It's also a *very* dialogue heavy movie, though some of the on-site Puerto…