Johnny Allegro

The 1949 Crime/Drama JOHNNY ALLEGRO stars George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready, Will Geer and Ivan Triesault.

Johnny Allegro (George Raft) is a former mobster who has gone legit and now works for the U.S. Treasury Department as an undercover agent. Allegro is asked to help get the goods on Morgan Vallin (George MacReady), a polished counterfeiter who is involved in a right-wing plot to bring down the American government by flooding the U.S. economy with bogus currency. Allegro makes his way to the island that's Vallin's base of operations, with Glenda Chapman (Nina Foch) in tow, and he convinces Vallin that he's a fugitive from American justice. Vallin takes Allegro and Glenda in, but he soon discovers Johnny's true identity, and Allegro learns that Vallin has a bizarre hobby -- he likes to hunt, but he feels that humans are a more interesting quarry than animals. 

This is average fare (IMDb: 6.5), but Macready stands out in his role as villian.  Raft doesn't know what "island" he's on and the cinematography is well done, considering it was filmed at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Gardens in Arcadia, CA.

Bruce R