Alias Nick Beal (1949)

 Alias Nick Beal, released in 1949by Paramount Pictures, directed by John Farrow, starring Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas, Mitchell, George Macready, Fred Clark, and Darryl Hickman. A righteous district attorney's main goal is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him achieve his end.