
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 79m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Irving Pichel
- Stars: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre, Taylor Holmes
- keywords: car mechanic, femme fatale, film noir
- Production_studio: Samuel H. Stiefel Productions
- Slogan: A guy who yields to temptation just once...... ....and finds it's once too often!
- providers: fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus, TCM, IndieFlix, Troma NOW
- The Quicksand is featured in the top rankings of 1950
- #42 in Top Crime Movies of 1950
- #28 in Top Thriller Movies of 1950
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.