title: One Way Street
text: One Way Street is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring James Mason, Märta Torén and Dan Duryea. The crime film takes place mainly in Mexico.
  
  Plot
  
  Dr. Frank Matson, a physician, steals $200,000 from the mob boss John Wheeler, after a robbery that Wheeler has pulled off along with Ollie, a member of his gang. Forced to go on the run, Matson also takes Wheeler's girlfriend Laura Thorsen with him.
  
  After hiding out in Mexico, word gets back to Matson that Wheeler knows where he is. He and Laura return to Los Angeles planning to return the money, only to find Wheeler has been shot by Ollie. About to meet the same fate, Matson produces a gun and kills Ollie instead.
  
  Laura is waiting for him at a cafe. As they leave, Matson turns to go phone the airline to get away with Laura, but is hit by a car coming down the one-way street.
  
  Cast
   James Mason as Dr. Frank Matson 
   Märta Torén as Laura Thorsen (as Marta Toren)
   Dan Duryea as John Wheeler 
   Basil Ruysdael as Father Moreno 
   William Conrad as Ollie
   Rodolfo Acosta as Francisco Morales 
   King Donovan as Grieder
   Robert Espinoza as Santiago 
   Tito Renaldo as Hank Morales
   Margarito Luna as Antania Morales 
   Emma Roldán as Catalina (as Emma Roldan)
   George J. Lewis as Capt. Rodriguez (as George Lewis)
   James Best as Driver (uncredited)
   Jack Elam as Arnie (uncredited)
   Rock Hudson as Truck Driver (uncredited)
  
  Production
  Jeff Chandler was originally announced for the lead.
  
  Reception
  Film critic Bosley Crowther dismissed the film as uninteresting, "Perhaps it is all the fault of the script, which has our hero vacillating between a life of crime and regeneration via a lady's love and an honest but unremunerative practice. What it all adds up to is a standard romantic melodrama illustrating the facts that crime obviously doesn't pay and that the scenery and people below the border are colorful ... Like its title, One Way Street is explicitly obvious and not especially exciting."
  
  See also
   List of American films of 1950
  
  References
  
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  1950 films
  1950 crime films
  American crime films
  American black-and-white films
  Film noir
  Films directed by Hugo Fregonese
  Universal Pictures films
  Films set in Mexico
  Films scored by Frank Skinner
  1950s English-language films
  1950s American films
  English-language crime films