Classic Films

» musicman54494 - I've been looking along time.

When I was a teenager, I saw a old black and white movie. I guess you could say it got me into that genre. I've tried for a decade now to trie and find the title. Here's the description. Like I said B&W. Old gangster type. Almost Hitchcockish.

A drifter is walking up the road. At the same time it shows a radio in a cafe with an announcement saying that a thug had escaped and was headed in that general area. The drifter goes into the cafe. The other patrons in the cafe decide he's the thug and come up with a plan to convince him he would be better off dead. The film progresses until finally the real thug and his gang show up. By then the stranger is fully convinced it is his time to die and takes on the thugs.

I remember the film was set in a desert type of setting. The diner/cafe seemed to be the only building on the dirt road. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Know any other good B&W films. Let me know.

-- posted by musicman54494