Danger Zone (1951 film)

Danger Zone is a 1951 American film noir directed by William Berke and starring Hugh Beaumont, Tom Neal and Edward Brophy. A lower-budget second feature, it was distributed by the independent Lippert Pictures.

Plot
Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private eye Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at a yacht party auction, but O'Brien is slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien snoops around and learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. He then gets involved with the murder of Vicki Jason's husband and gets slugged again and framed. With the aid of "Professor" Schickler, he proves his innocence when Vicki kills her coconspirator lover Edgar Spadely, another private detective, and Vicki admits her own guilt in the murder of her husband.

Cast
• Hugh Beaumont as Dennis O'Brien

• Tom Neal as Edgar Spadely

• Edward Brophy as Prof. Frederick Simpson Schicker

• Richard Travis as Police Lt. Bruger

• Pamela Blake as Vicki Jason

• Virginia Dale as Claire Underwood

• Ralph Sanford as Larry Dunlap

• Paula Drew as Sheila Jason

• Jack Reitzen as Cole, the Auctioneer

• Edward Clark as Elderly Man at Auction

• Richard Monahan as Henry, the Bartender

• Don Garner as Bud Becker

• Tiny Jones as Woman at Auction

Production
The film was originally known as Roaring.