Woman on Pier 13

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Woman on Pier 13

1950

1h 13m

Crime

Drama

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Communists blackmail a San Francisco shipper (Robert Ryan) and recruit his wife's (Laraine Day) brother (John Agar) with a blonde.

Tom Milne

Time Out

The sterling cast can make no headway against cartoon characters, a fatuous script that defies belief, and an enveloping sense of hysteria.

Sep 2, 2020

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Variety Staff

Variety

Despite its heavy sounding title, pic hews strictly to tried and true meller formula.

Sep 2, 2020

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Dudley Early

Austin American-Statesman

This is pure propaganda, heavy-handed and dull.

Rated: 0/4

Sep 2, 2020

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Robert Ellis

California Eagle

Only the gullible are going to fall for this one.

Oct 30, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

If you can somehow get by the polemics and the cheesy script and view this melodrama as typical Hollywood, the film is quite entertaining.

Rated: C

May 1, 2003

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Audience Member

Obviously made during the height of the Cold War this drama is a tad highstrung but good acting puts it over. Any movie with Robert Ryan is worth checking out for him alone.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Unremarkable propaganda-minded B-movie. The cheesy communists as deadly organized crime group motif is mildly amusing, but not enough rise it above being anything but a predictable, mediocre potboiler. Some nice black and white photography by Nicholas Musuraca, though.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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The Cold War is not over as long as the largest population on earth is Communist.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

good but loaded with propaganda.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

Simple story - yet well enacted to demonstrate political coercion & manipulation.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Robert Stevenson

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Laraine Day

Nan Lowry Collins

Robert Ryan

Bradley Collins

John Agar

Don Lowry

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Synopsis

Communists blackmail a San Francisco shipper (Robert Ryan) and recruit his wife's (Laraine Day) brother (John Agar) with a blonde.

Director: Robert Stevenson
Production Co: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Feb 16, 2006
Runtime: 1h 13m