A Bullet for Joey
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A mid-century noir thriller about a gangster and cop converging on a spy plot, driven by Cold War paranoia and the moral redemption of a criminal.
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
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