Illegal Entry (film)

Illegal Entry
Film poster
Directed byFrederick De Cordova
Written byArt Cohn
(adaptation)
Screenplay byJoel Malone
Based onBen Bengal
Herbert Kline
Dan Tyler Moore
(as Kline Tyler Moore)
(based on a story by)
Produced byJules Schermer
StarringHoward Duff
Märta Torén
George Brent
CinematographyWilliam H. Daniels
Edited byEdward Curtiss
Music byMilton Schwarzwald
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • June 1, 1949 (1949-06-01)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$590,000[1]

Illegal Entry is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Howard Duff, Märta Torén and George Brent.[2] The film and its treatment of illegal entry and unlawful residence in the United States is introduced by Watson B. Miller, the commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service under President Harry S. Truman.

  1. ^ "U's $1,470,000 Average Prod Cost Pared to 740G Per Pic in 49". Variety. 27 April 1949. p. 6.
  2. ^ Illegal Entry at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.