Pier 23

Pier 23
Directed byWilliam Berke
Screenplay by
  • Julian Harmon
  • Victor West
Story by
  • Herbert Margolis
  • Louis Morheim
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJack Greenhalgh
Edited by
Music byBert Shefter
Production
company
Spartan Productions
Distributed by
Release date
  • May 11, 1951 (1951-05-11)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Pier 23 is a 1951 American crime film directed by William Berke and starring Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage and Edward Brophy. It was distributed by the independent Lippert Pictures as a second feature intended for television as well as the cinema.

The film is closely related to the 1951 film Roaring City, which was filmed simultaneously with the same director, producers and cast, and with similar opening sequences. The two films were released at the same time, both as second features. Although Lippert Pictures announced before production that the project originally titled Pier 23 was to be retitled as Roaring City, the films are separate and have different overall plots.

Plot

Denny O'Brien runs a boat shop on San Francisco's Pier 23 and moonlights as a private detective. A priest hires him to locate an Alcatraz escapee in hopes of getting him to surrender, but instead Denny is met by an impostor. The next day, a wrestling referee hires him to pick up a payoff for looking the other way in a fixed match but is killed before O'Brien can deliver the money.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ 'The Lemon Drop Kid' Comedy Romp for Hope Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 11 May 1951: B6.
  2. ↑ PIER 23 (Lippert-Exclusive) Picture Show; London Vol. 58, Iss. 1506, (Feb 9, 1952): 10.
  3. ↑ PIER 23 Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 18, Iss. 204, (Jan 1, 1951): 377.
  4. ↑ "New Title Chosen". Los Angeles Mirror. December 26, 1950. p. 31.