Slippy McGee (1948 film)

Slippy McGee is a 1948 American crime film directed by Albert H. Kelley, written by Jerome Gruskin and Norman S. Hall, and starring Don "Red" Barry, Dale Evans, Tom Brown, Harry Cheshire, James Seay and Murray Alper.

[1][2][3] After he and a pair of accomplices, Al and Red, pull a $50,000 diamond heist, Slippy McGee separates from them and plans to hide out for a while in Middleton, a small town.

A motorcycle-riding priest, Father Shanley, gives him a lift, then expresses his gratitude after Slippy saves a young boy from being hit by a truck.

Mary's attentions to the patient stirs jealousy in suitor Tom Eustis, the richest man in town.

Suspicion falls on Slippy, who confronts his former partners and ends up killing Red in self-defense.