What is The Threat / The Black Book about?

Name: The Threat / The Black Book
Genre: Action/Adventure,Suspense/Thriller

THE THREAT, 1949, Warner Bros., 66 min. A vicious gang leader escapes from Folsom Prison on a juggernaut mission of vengeance targeting the L.A.P.D. detective (Michael O’Shea) and D.A.(Frank Conroy) who sent him up. In a breakthrough performance comparable to Widmark and Cagney, Charles McGraw orchestrates a virtual highlight reel of kidnapping, torture and flight from L.A through the Inland Empire into the High Desert. THE BLACK BOOK (aka REIGN OF TERROR), 1949, Sony Repertory, 89 min. Dir. Anthony Mann. When Robespierre (Richard Basehart), becomes increasingly guillotine-happy, the more rational citizens of the French Revolution assign undercover operative Robert Cummings to filch Robespierre’s fabled "black book" of enemies that will topple the dictator if made public. Cummings hooks up with beautiful spy Arlene Dahl, and the two are soon on the run from Robespierre’s fanatical minions.

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What is The Threat / The Black Book about?: THE THREAT, 1949, Warner Bros., 66 min. A vicious gang leader escapes from Folsom Prison on a juggernaut mission of vengeance targeting the L.A.P.D. detective (Michael O’Shea) and D.A.(Frank Conroy) who sent him up. In a breakthrough performance comparable to Widmark and Cagney, Charles McGraw orchestrates a virtual highlight reel of kidnapping, torture and flight from L.A through the Inland Empire into the High Desert.
THE BLACK BOOK (aka REIGN OF TERROR), 1949, Sony Repertory, 89 min. Dir. Anthony Mann. When Robespierre (Richard Basehart), becomes increasingly guillotine-happy, the more rational citizens of the French Revolution assign undercover operative Robert Cummings to filch Robespierre’s fabled "black book" of enemies that will topple the dictator if made public. Cummings hooks up with beautiful spy Arlene Dahl, and the two are soon on the run from Robespierre’s fanatical minions.