I'll Get You for This

Gambler George Raft on a leisurely holiday on the Italian Riviera arrives at a hotel/casino where the management is really pulling out all the hospitality stops for him. The casino manager Martin Benson has even forgiven the losses of fellow American tourist Coleen Gray at the gaming tables if she'll just be friendly to Raft.

Gray's friendly enough all right, but when a Mickey Finn is slipped in both their drinks, Raft and Gray wake up to find themselves wanted for the murder of a third American at the resort.

That particular American Donald Stewart as it turns out was a secret service agent on the trail of some gangsters who have grabbed some nearly perfect counterfeit plates developed by the Nazis and never put in use during the war to destroy the value of American currency.

I'll Get You For This also entitled Lucky Nick Cain is concerned with just how Raft and Gray get out of this jackpot. The only one they can trust for a while until they sort out the good guys from the bad guys is shoeshine boy Enzo Staiola who was prominently featured in Vittorio DeSica's The Bicycle Thief a few years earlier. By the way when you see Staiola meet Raft at the beginning of the film and offer him a shine, Raft's elevator shoes are plainly visible.

The film is a British production with American stars and an Italian setting and a cast of all three countries. Maybe color would have helped as it always does in Mediterranean settings, but the film never really takes off in the action department. Raft was clearly in the B film phase of his career and this one didn't help him get out of it.