Tough Assignment (1949)
Overview
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
What is Tough Assignment about?
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking! Tough Assignment is a Western, Action, Adventure, Crime movie, released on 1949-11-15, runtime 64 minutes.
Is Tough Assignment worth watching?
There are not enough ratings yet to summarize how viewers feel about Tough Assignment.
Where can I watch Tough Assignment?
Movie World lists online streaming sources and links to external sources for Tough Assignment on this page. Availability depends on the sources configured by the site.
Directed by
William Beaudine
Cast
- Don 'Red' Barry as Dan Reilly
- Marjorie Steele as Margie Reilly
- Steve Brodie as Boss Morgan
- Marc Lawrence as Vince
- Ben Welden as Sniffy
- Sid Melton as Herman
- John Cason as Joe
- Frank Richards as Steve
- Fred Kohler Jr. as Grant--Head Rancher
- Michael Whalen as 'Hutch' Hutchison
- Edit Angold as Mrs. Schultz
- Leander De Cordova as Schultz
More like this
Sources
Details and the 6.8/10 rating from Tough Assignment on TMDB, also on IMDb. Back to Movie World.