This poster for the film noir Framed, which premiered in the U.S. today in 1947, is a bit different in style from what you’d normally see during the 1940s. It was a low budget movie, so we imagine this was the low budget solution to promo art. It’s reasonably effective, enough so that we decided to watch the movie, and the premise is that pretty boy Glenn Ford is a down-on-his-luck job seeker who’s been unwittingly selected by a couple of shady characters to take the fall for a bank embezzlement. We didn’t give anything away there. Viewers know pretty much right away Ford is being set up, who’s doing it, and why. It’s the complications that make the movie, and those accumulate rather quickly. If being framed is defined as to be on the hook for a crime you didn’t commit, then there’s more than one framee in this film, which is where clever scripting comes in to rescue a bottom drawer budget. In the end you get a nice b-noir with a title that takes on more significance than you’d at first assume. We recommend it highly.
