Portland Exposé
| Portland Exposé | |
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| Directed by | Harold Schuster |
| Screenplay by | Jack DeWitt |
| Based on | "Portland Exposé" by Bernard Victor Dryer |
| Produced by | Lindsley Parsons |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Carl Berger |
| Edited by | Maurice Wright |
| Music by | Paul Dunlap |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $150,000 |
| Box office | $600,000 |
Portland Exposé is a 1957 American film noir directed by Harold Schuster and starring Edward Binns and Carolyn Craig. The plot follows a tavern owner in Portland, Oregon who is involved in a struggle for power between two gangs attempting to control the unions. The film was inspired by crime boss Jim Elkins and the McClellan Committee's investigation into Portland's underground criminal ventures in the 1940s and 1950s, which were the subject of an extensive article published in Life magazine in March 1957.
The film was distributed theatrically by Allied Artists in August 1957, though it was banned by local agencies from being screened within a 30-mile (48 km) radius of Portland.