Jigsaw

(1949)

70 minutes

Crime Drama / Film Noir

Directed by Fletcher Markle

Cast:

Franchot Tone as Howard Malloy 
Jean Wallace as Barbara Whitfield 
Myron McCormick as Charles Riggs 
Marc Lawrence as Angelo Agostini 
Winifred Lenihan as Mrs. Hartley 
Doe Avedon as Caroline Riggs 
Hedley Rainnie as Sigmund Kosterich 
Walter Vaughan as District Attorney Walker   
George Breen as Knuckles 
Robert Gist as Tommy Quigley 
Hester Sondergaard as Mrs. Borg 
Luella Gear as Pet Shop Owner 
Alexander Campbell as Pemberton 
Robert Noe as Waldron 
Alexander Lockwood as Nichols 

D.A. Franchot Tone pursues murderer of his journalist friend. The plot is about a shadowy group called the Crusaders, which has been organizing itself into a power center.  When a columnist is killed while looking into the Crusaders, Howard Malloy finds himself appointed a special prosecutor. He also finds himself in a noxious mess that combines crime, nativism and the reactionary beliefs of some of the privileged few.