1949
Johnny Stool Pigeon
An American movie, part of which was filmed in Vancouver, that was actually set in Vancouver! How often does that happen? The 1949 film noir thriller Johnny Stool Pigeon, starring Howard Duff , Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea and Tony Curtis, told of international drug dealers tracked to their downtown Vancouver lair by a heroic US Treasury agent.
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