Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on Roadblock (1951)

Roadblock (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Happiness Doesn't Count

On the morning-after being obliged to share a Kansas hotel room because she pretended to be his wife in order to get a cheap seat on a TWA flight to Los Angeles that was grounded by weather, insurance investigator Joe (Charles McGraw) and maybe-grifter Diane (Joan Dixon) get tighter, in Roadblock, 1951.

Roadblock (1951) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't See A Thing

The crystalline, clever opening, from the screenplay credited to Steve Fisher and George Bricker from a story by Richard Landau and Daniel Mainwaring, Charles McGraw holds the gun, worrying Peter Brocco, with Louis-Jean Heydt, direction by Harold Daniels, in Roadblock, 1951.

Roadblock (1951) -- (Movie Clip) So Swell Of You

Some weeks after they met by chance and she semi-snubbed him, insurance detective Joe (Charles McGraw), following a series of fur heists, finds Diane (Joan Dixon), who has no visible means of support, on the arm of a notorious crime boss (Lowell Gilmore) at an L-A club, Martha Mears the singer, in Roadblock, 1951.

Roadblock (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Does That Make Me Poison?

After not-fully meeting in the Cincinnati airport, insurance investigator Joe (Charles McGraw), flying home, deduces that fetching fellow traveler Diane (Joan Dixon) has snagged a half-price fare to L-A by posing as his wife, early in Roadblock, 1951.