NOIR - Quicksand (1950)

After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.

The auto mechanic Dan Brady "borrows" twenty dollars from the cash register of the garage where he works to date the blonde waitress Vera Novak in the weekend. His intention is return the money Monday night, when a friend that owes him the same amount will pay him. However, on Monday morning the accountant finds the negative balance, and Dan tries to cover the embezzlement, falling deeper and deeper in a criminal life.

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