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711 Ocean Drive (1950)

Directed by Joseph M. Newman

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Overview

The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!

Rated NR | Length 102 minutes

Actors

Edmond O'Brien | Joanne Dru | Otto Kruger | Barry Kelley | Dorothy Patrick | Don Porter | Howard St. John | Robert Osterloh | Sammy White | Fred Aldrich | Phillip Barnes | Jay Barney | Gail Bonney | Ralph Brooks | Frank Dae | George DeNormand | Sidney Dubin | Charles Ferguson | Bert Freed | William Getts | Edward Grandpere | Joe Gray | Robert Haines | Al Hill | Charles Jordan | Charles La Torre | Harry Lauter | George Magrill | Hank Mann | Earl Merritt | Carl Milletaire | Ralph Montgomery | Cleo Moore | Joey Ray | Jack Raymond | Walter Sande | Larry Steers | Amzie Strickland | Brick Sullivan | Duke Watson | Jack Weiler