Quicksand (DVD)

Quicksand is a 1950 American film noir starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre and portrays a garage mechanic's descent into crime. Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) is a young auto mechanic in California who borrows $20 from the cash register at his job to pay for a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak (Jeanne Cagney). Dan intends to pay the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled and discovers the $20 is missing. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he quickly finds himself drawn into an ever-worsening 'quicksand' of crime, with each of his misdeeds more serious than the last. Dan devises a plot to put a one dollar down payment on a wristwatch at a jewellery store, and then takes the watch to a pawn shop where he hocks the watch for $30, using most of that money to cover the original missing funds from his job. Dan is then tracked down by an investigator who tells him that if he does not pay the jewellery store the fu