Jigsaw is a 1949 American film noir crime drama directed by Fletcher Markle starring Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace and Marc Lawrence. The feature was produced by the Danziger Brothers, Edward J. Danziger and Harry Lee Danziger from a screenplay by Vincent McConnor and Fletcher Markle, which was based on a story by John Roeburt.
The film features cameo appearances by Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, John Garfield, Burgess Meredith, Marsha Hunt, Doe Avedon, Everett Sloane, newspaper columnist Leonard Lyons and the film's director, Fletcher Markle.
Plot: When the owner of a printing shop is found dead, the District Attorney assumes that it was a suicide. But the Assistant D.A., Howard Malloy, suspects that there is a connection with an extremist political group called the 'Crusaders'. When a journalist whose articles had attacked the Crusaders is also killed, Malloy is convinced. With help from the widow of a prominent judge, he conducts an investigation. As he does so, he meets a peculiar political boss and also an attractive night club singer, each of whom could become either a source of help or a source of danger.
Credits Franchot Tone as Howard Malloy Jean Wallace as Barbara Whitfield Myron McCormick as Charles Riggs Marc Lawrence as Angelo Agostini Winifred Lenihan as Mrs. Hartley Doe Avedon as Caroline Riggs Hedley Rainnie as Sigmund Kosterich Walter Vaughan as District Attorney Walker George Breen as Knuckles Robert Gist as Tommy Quigley Hester Sondergaard as Mrs. Borg Luella Gear as Pet Shop Owner Henry Fonda as Nightclub Waiter Alexander Campbell as Pemberton Robert Noe as Waldron Alexander Lockwood as Nichols Ken Smith as Wylie Alan MacAteer as Museum Guard Manuel Aparicio as Warehouse Guard Brainerd Duffield as Butler Marlene Dietrich as Nightclub Patron
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