Framed is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Richard Wallace and starring Glenn Ford, Janis Carter and Barry Sullivan.

[1] Naïve mining engineer Mike Lambert (Glenn Ford) takes a temporary job driving a truck.

When the brakes fail while coming down a steep highway, he steers his way through a small town and is lucky to just dent the pickup of Jeff Cunningham (Edgar Buchanan).

A total stranger, barmaid and local tramp Paula Craig (Janis Carter), pays his $50 fine.

The clerk at the assay office puts him in touch with Jeff, a prospector who has found a rich vein in an old, abandoned silver mine.

Paula tells him she persuaded Steve to reconsider Jeff's financing and gullible Mike falls for the lie.

It was an entertaining B-film that ably caught how an honest but desperate man reacts after hooking up with a falsehearted woman.

Framed remains a thrilling example of 1940s film noir at its best: economically told, atmospherically photographed (at, among other places, Lake Arrowhead) and more than competently acted.

Carter, especially, is a revelation and it is too bad that she was mostly used by Columbia Pictures for decorative purposes, a sort of second-tier Rita Hayworth.