Saturday, May 28, 2022

Friday, May 27 - Lonely Heart Bandits

Lonely Heart Bandits (1950)

Two con artists, Dorothy Patrick and John Eldredge partner up to play the Lonely Hearts racket. They place ads with various Lonely Heart clubs looking for well off possible companions. Patrick plays the men and Eldredge the distaff marks.

Their first mark they end up killing for the $7,000 in cash he has stashed. They move around the country burning various people for their savings.

Sometimes they pose as brother and sister to put possible marks at ease. A new mark, widow Ann Doran is soon on Eldredge's hook. He promises her world travel etc after they get married. She falls for the smooth talking heel and dumps would be suitor, Richard Travis.

Eldredge soon has Doran talked into selling her house and then traveling with him to Italy for a quick marriage, He then sends Doran off with his "sister" Patrick on a shopping trip to Chicago. Half way to Chicago, Patrick calmly shoves Doran off the back of the moving train they are on. She smiles as she watches Doran face plant onto the rail bed.

While all this has been going on, a concerned Travis has contacted Doran's son, Eric Sinclair about what is going on with his mother...

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