A Man Betrayed is a 1941 American dramatic comedy film directed by John H. Auer and starring John Wayne, Frances Dee and Edward Ellis. It was produced and distributed by Republic Pictures. In the United Kingdom, the film was released as Citadel of Crime.

Plot Bucolic lawyer Lynn Hollister fights big-city corruption when he tries to prove that politician Tom Cameron is a crook. Hollister is in love with the politician's daughter Sabra.

Cast John Wayne as Lynn Hollister Frances Dee as Sabra Cameron Edward Ellis as Boss Thomas "Tom" Cameron Wallace Ford as Casey ("Globe" newspaper reporter) Ward Bond as Floyd, Amato's goon Harold Huber as Morris "Morrie" Slade Alexander Granach as T. Amato, Club Inferno Manager Barnett Parker as George, the Camerons' Butler Edwin Stanley as the Prosecutor Harry Hayden as lawyer Don Langworthy Tim Ryan as Mr. Wilson, insurance agent Russell Hicks as District Attorney C. R. Pringle Pierre Watkin as the Governor Ferris Taylor as Mayor Al

Reception In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Thomas M. Pryor wrote: "With more action and less talk, 'A Man Betrayed' might have amounted to something better than just a torpid expose of a political boss. For the new film... reveals nothing new about the workings of machine politics, nor does it afford any suspense as to what will ultimately happen... The plot is talked away in the first fifteen minutes and, except for a lively election-day skirmish between rival mobsters and graveyard voters, there just isn't anything to arrest one's attention."

The Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote: "As though embossed, a character occasionally stands out on the screen from among the welter of rubber-stamp types. John Wayne manages such a characterization in 'A Man Betrayed.'... The story is engrossing particularly from this characterization... Otherwise the yarn is one of those murder things with crooks in high and low places, and the hero bent on a whodunit mission to the big city."

See also John Wayne filmography

References

Bibliography Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.

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