Johnny Allegro (1949)

Johnny Rock is an escaped convict from Sing Sing. Having gone straight in part to evade capture, he, reverting to his pre-criminal life growing up in Hell's Kitchen, is now operating a retail florist business in an upscale hotel in Los Angeles under his name at birth, John Allegro. Knowing nothing about her beyond her request, Johnny helps a beautiful hotel guest, Glenda Chapman, evade the police who are tailing her. In the process, the two start to fall for each other. It is his association with her that Johnny himself attracts the attention of the authorities, specifically Agent Schultz - "Schultzy" - of the US Treasury Department, he who knows John Allegro is Johnny Rock. Rather than bring him in, Schultzy offers him a proposition: to help them find Glenda's connections to a crime in return for a reduced remainder of his time behind bars, which is only aided by Johnny already having served his country in war in distinguished service post-his escape. While Johnny accepts the offer much against some of Schultzy's colleagues who believe he will use the opportunity to disappear, Johnny only discovers much of what Schultzy didn't tell him in the process of working on the case: Schultzy knows that the mastermind of the crime is Morgan Vallin, Glenda's husband, who is planning on flooding the country with already printed counterfeit currency. What Schultzy does not know is where the money is being hidden and how Vallin is planning on circulating the money without detection. Beyond the issue of Glenda, the problem for Johnny is being isolated in the money being hidden on one of the many islands off the Florida coast, he a voluntary captive on the unknown island with Glenda, Vallin, and his skipper Roy, neither of Vallin or Roy trusting Johnny with Vallin a sadist who takes pleasure in psychological torture before killing his human prey.

Johnny Allegro is a crime movie featuring William Phillips and directed by Ted Tetzlaff.

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