The Shakedown 2024

A high-stakes showdown unfolds when a respected insurance broker's illicit affair with a siren-like seductress puts his reputation on the line. With his dignity in peril, he turns to his cunning underground sibling for guidance, blurring the lines between respectability and recklessness.

A high-stakes showdown unfolds when a respected insurance broker's illicit affair with a siren-like seductress puts his reputation on the line. With his dignity in peril, he turns to his cunning underground sibling for guidance, blurring the lines between respectability and recklessness.

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The Shakedown does not have end credit scenes.

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5.1 /10

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Jimmy Morrell and Norma Nelson who plan to wed as soon as their neighborhood pharmacy begins to show a profit. The opportunity arises when former bootlegger Dutch Barnes offers Jimmy a job duplicating name brand toothpaste and cosmetics that can be made cheaply and then sold in the bottles and jars of reputable pharmaceutical companies at regular prices. When Dutch asks him to copy the formula for a popular brand of antiseptic, Jimmy refuses, claiming he is unable to get a key ingredient, but when Dutch offers him a bonus hefty enough to allow Jimmy to marry Norma, he agrees.

Dutch’s ex-girlfriend Lily Duran, jealous over his attentions to another woman, notifies the antiseptic company about the deception, and is murdered by Dutch. Without their key witness, the company is forced to drop their lawsuit against Jimmy. Now beholden to Dutch, he is forced to make fake digitalis. Norma is given some of the drug during childbirth, causing her to lose the baby.

Jimmy seeks vengeance against Dutch, but Sheffner, who formulated the antiseptic Jimmy manufactured, shoots Dutch. Jimmy confesses everything to the district attorney and is exonerated, allowing him and Norma to return to life as they once knew it.

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