| 词条 | Wiretapper |
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| name = Wiretapper | image = | caption = | director = Dick Ross | producer = World Wide Pictures | writer = Jim Vaus Jr. John O'Dea | starring = Bill Williams Georgia Lee Douglas Kennedy | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1955|08|10}} | runtime = 80 minutes | country = United States | language = English }}Wiretapper is a 1955 crime action biopic directed by Dick Ross, written by John O'Dea, starring Bill Williams, Georgia Lee and Douglas Kennedy. The scenario of the film was based on a true story of Jim Vaus Jr.[1] PlotJim Vaus returns from the war and marries Alice. He struggles to make a living. He was hired by Charles Rumsden to fix a doorbell, and realizes that his client is a mob boss. Alice discovers the source of Jim's income and their relationship was expired and strained to the breaking point. She forces Jim to attend a Billy Graham's Los Angeles Crusade, in her attempt to save their marriage and Jim's soul. ScenarioDuring the late 1940s, Jim Vaus Jr. worked for the police and for mobster Mickey Cohen.[2][3][4] The story of Jim Vaus was described in magazines: Time, Life and Reader’s Digest.{{r|willvaus}} Jim Vaus described his own story in his autobiography Why I Quit Syndicated Crime (1951).[5][6] This autobiography was used by John O'Dea for a film scenario.[7] In 2007 Will Vaus, son of Jim, published book My Father Was a Gangster.[8] Cast
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References1. ^{{Cite journal | author = Peter T. Chattaway | title = Billy Graham Goes to the Movies | url = http://www.patheos.com/blogs/filmchat/2005/08/billy-graham-goes-to-the-movies.html | journal = Christianity Today | date = August 23, 2005 | accessdate = 2013-11-30}} 2. ^{{Cite journal | author = Cutler B. Whitwell | title = The Great Awakening in Los Angeles | url = http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/docs/LA49/09.htm | journal = The Sunday School Times | volume = (3) 1127 | date = December 17, 1949 | accessdate = 2013-11-30}} 3. ^{{Cite book | author = Mel Larson | chapter = TASTING REVIVAL — at Los Angeles | title = Revival In Our Time: The Story of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Campaigns including Six of his Sermons | publisher = Van Kampen Press | year = 1950 | pages = 17 | accessdate = 2013-11-30}} 4. ^{{Cite journal | author = Will Vaus | title = The original wiretapper | journal = Los Angeles Times | date = April 1, 2008}} 5. ^{{Cite journal | author = Carolyn Kellogg | title = Gangland L.A. in the 1950s, via pulp nonfiction | url = http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/11/gangland-1950s-pulp-nonfiction-style.html | journal = The Los Angeles Times | date = November 9, 2009}} 6. ^{{Cite web | author = John Buntin | title =Notes from the (Bibliographic) Underground | url = http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/notes-from-the-bibliographic-underground-by-john-buntin/ | website = PowellsBooks | publisher = | date = November 5, 2009}} 7. ^{{amg movie|117253|Wiretapper (1955)}} 8. ^My Father Was a Gangster: The Jim Vaus Story External links
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