Framed

We’ve no idea why waitress Paula (Janis Carter) has paid to keep our hero (Glenn Ford, not seen), whom she just met, out of jail and left him drunk in a hotel room and quit her job, nor exactly why she’s meeting Stephen (Barry Sullivan, his first scene), but it’s sinister for sure, early in Framed, 1947.

Mike (Glenn Ford), who’s done well to cause nothing more than a small wreck after the truck he was hired to drive somewhere east of LA proved to have no brakes, enters the local cafe and meets Paula (Janis Carter), the barkeep (Sid Tomack) and the cops, the second scene, in Framed, 1947.

Looking for work and recovering from a bender, stranded in a desert town, mining engineer Mike (Glenn Ford) explains himself to the local assayer (Paul Burns), who recommends he meet Jeff (Edgar Buchanan), to whom he did a solid favor the day before, things looking up, in Framed, 1947.

Drifter, truck-driver and engineer Mike (Glenn Ford) resists the friendly approach of scheming bombshell Paula (Janis Carter), who rescued him and got him blackout-drunk the night before, in Columbia's Framed, 1947.