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Western Pacific Agent
Western Pacific Agent
Directed by	Sam Newfield
Screenplay by	Fred Myton; Milton Raison (story)
Produced by	Irving Kay and Sigmund Neufeld
Cinematography	Ernest Miller
Edited by	Carl Pierson
Production; company	Sigmund Neufeld Productions
Distributed by	Lippert Pictures
Release dates	March 17, 1950 (U.S. premiere); April 10, 1950;
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Western Pacific Agent is a 1950 Sigmund Neufeld Productions crime drama directed by Sam Newfield and starring Kent Taylor, Sheila Ryan, and Mickey Knox. The picture was written by Fred Myton based on a story by Milton Raison. It was released in West Germany as Jack der Killer.

When released in 2008 on DVD, the New York Times called it a "terse crime film".^[1]

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In the present-day American West, detectives for the Western Pacific Railroad investigate several murders, including one of a railroad detective killed during a train robbery.

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Kent Taylor as Rod Kendall
Sheila Ryan as Martha Stuart
Mickey Knox as Frank Wickens
Morris Carnovsky as Joe 'Pop' Wickens
Robert Lowery as Bill Stuart

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Western Pacific Agent was the last Hollywood film Morris Carnovsky made before he was blacklisted.^[2]

References edit

^ Kehr, Dave (December 15, 2008). "New DVDs: 'Bottle Rocket'". New York Times. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
^ Manso, Peter (1985). Mailer: His Life and Times. Simon & Schuster. p. 144. ISBN 9781416562863. Retrieved April 6, 2015.

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Western Pacific Agent at IMDb

[1] Kehr, Dave (December 15, 2008). "New DVDs: 'Bottle Rocket'". New York Times. Retrieved April 6, 2015.

[2] Manso, Peter (1985). Mailer: His Life and Times. Simon & Schuster. p. 144. ISBN 9781416562863. Retrieved April 6, 2015.

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