Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

hyped garbage

The first must-see film of the year.

I like Glenn Ford and he does a good act for whatever role he is assigned. Here he plays a guy just trying to get a break which really means a job and he runs into this story. Interesting to note the scene where there is a courtroom procedure and how inadequate justice was and how it was dispensed. It helps you to realize how we got to where we are today as people in court rooms know not what they do and the powers that be don't care either. The plot involves money, love, betrayal and hope all the emotional traits humans suffer from and need. The problem is that all the wrong stuff is too available while the better opportunities take time, patience and some discernment. The ending is satisfying and one can relate to it no problem. You never know what to expect with film noir but you always get atmosphere, intrigue and down to earth surprises. Recommend a snack and a tasty drink to compliment the viewing

FRAMED", Columbia, 1947, 82 min. This the one in which a slightly scruffy Glen Ford (just after "'Gilda", which made him a highly bankable Star) plays a mining engineer down on his luck, drifts into town, gets busted for a brakeless truck driving accident for which he gets thirty days in the local hoosegow, but is bailed out by a mysterious blonde (Janis Carter) for no apparent reason other than that she seems to have eyes for him. If he knew what she really had in mind for him he would have taken the ten days, gladly! As the plot thickens the incredibly alluring Carter really racks poor lovesick Glen over the coals setting him up for an insurance scam where he will be "accidentally killed" in a car crash so she and her real boyfriend (Barry Sullivan) can collect on the policy and scram. Glen barely survives and Janis gets her just deserts but her performance is so subtly-shaded with both hidden menace and obvious allure, and she is just so all-around fantastic in "Framed", that I couldn't help thinking that, all kidding aside, this must have been the Best Performance by an Actress for all of 1947 - - the year that Loretta Young actually got it for "The Farmer's Daughter".

Ford was a natural for film noir, and "Framed" illustrates this. He is a more vulnerable character than we're used to seeing him play in his other films, and he seems to be easily duped by a beautiful blonde(Janis Carter). Carter puts in a solid performance and should have been in more films of this type. She is perfect as the scheming and seductive Paula.Barry Sullivan is a bad guy here, the co-schemer with Paula. While the plot is somewhat predictable, it does include enough surprises to make it a good film noir. It puzzles me that Framed has apparently not been released on any format in video in either Region 1 or Region 2.Perhaps Sony will produce a Volume 4 of Columbia film noir and include Framed.

Framed casts Glenn Ford as the drifter with a chip on his shoulder who doesn't make a good impression on his first arrival in town. He takes a job driving a truck with faulty brakes that crashes into Edgar Buchanan's car and gets himself arrested in the process.A mysterious blond waitress played by Janis Carter pays his fine and gets him out of a 10 day jail sentence. For what she's got in mind, it would have been better if he took the 10 days.She's the tootsie on the side of Barry Sullivan the Vice President of a local bank by marrying the boss's daughter. He's embezzled a whole lot of cash and wants to run away with Carter. But Carter starts to develop ideas of her own.This starts the web of a whole lot of double crossing and dirty dealing by the feckless lovers. Framed is a nice little noir film and I love that Maltese Falcon ending.