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Tough Assignment Reviews

1949
1 hr 4 mins
NR

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A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors.

Slow-moving crime story has Barry and Steele as a husband and wife who are a reporter and photographer, respectively. They are after bad guy Brodie, who runs a rustling operation that forces stolen beef on ma-and-pa shop owners. To get the goods on the rustlers, Barry and Steele join the crooks and learn their secrets. Their cover gets blown, but the police arrive on the scene before the crooks can do the pair in.