Quicksand
1950 · 79 min · suspense · noir · crime
Quicksand (1950), Mickey Rooney cast hard against type in a film noir about a twenty-dollar mistake he cannot undo. Watch the full movie free, no account.
A garage mechanic lifts twenty dollars out of the till to cover a date, intends to put it back before anyone counts, and inside a week he has stolen a car and is being blackmailed by the man who runs a penny arcade on the Santa Monica pier. The arcade man is Peter Lorre, doing precisely as much as the part requires.
Mickey Rooney had just walked out on MGM after a decade as Andy Hardy and set up his own production company, a decision he later called one of the dumbest things he ever did. The offers stopped almost at once. That is how the most bankable young star in America ended up in a cheap noir being destroyed by pocket change, and he is genuinely good in it.
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