Shack Out on 101

Shack Out on 101 is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Edward Dein and starring Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn and Lee Marvin.

Plot

Slob (Marvin), the lecherous short-order cook at the seaside greasy-spoon diner of sarcastic war veteran George (Wynn), lusts after sexy waitress Kotty (Moore). Also interested in Kotty is a scientist (Lovejoy), who spends the better part of his free time at the diner's counter. He works down the highway at a top-secret military base. As it turns out, Slob is not just a short-order cook but also a spy using the diner as a home base for smuggling nuclear secrets out of the country through a connection with one of the diner's regulars.

Cast

Terry Moore as Kotty

Frank Lovejoy as Prof. Sam Bastion

Keenan Wynn as George

Lee Marvin as Slob / Mr. Gregory

Whit Bissell as Eddie

Jess Barker as Artie

Donald Murphy as Pepe

Frank DeKova as Prof. Claude Dillon

Len Lesser as Perch

Fred Gabourie as Lookout

See also

List of American films of 1955

References

External links

1955 films

1955 crime drama films

American anti-communist propaganda films

American crime drama films

American black-and-white films

American spy films

English-language spy films

Cold War spy films

Film noir

Allied Artists films

Films scored by Paul Dunlap

1950s English-language films

Films directed by Edward Dein

1950s American films

English-language crime drama films