Wiretapper (1955) TRUE CRIME
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Movie Class by PizzaFLIX: James Vaus had a spiritual awakening in 1949 while attending Billy Graham's Los Angeles Crusade, which led to his story being produced by Great Commission Films, a unit within Graham's evangelical ministry.
Stars: Bill Williams, Georgia Lee, Bill Graham
Director: Dick Ross
The fascinating story of an electronics expert who discovered a way to delay horse race results for the Mickey Cohen syndicate in Los Angeles! Based on the autobiography by Jim Vaus "Why I Quit Syndicated Crime." With a cinematic score by Ralph Carmichael!
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I never ever will get tired of watching this movie. Thank you PizzaFlix as always you never cease to entertain me.
@PizzaFLIX
5 жыл бұрын
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I first saw this movie in summer camp in 1968! (Camp Youth Development Inc, Lake Champion, Glens Spey NY) It was run by Southern Baptists as part of a youth outreach for kids living in Harlem, and this was REQUIRED viewing! I spent three summers there and we saw the movie each summer I was there. The man who ran the camp was the man featured in this movie as the Wiretapper (we knew him as Jim Vaus) and he would come in quietly during the showing to stock the vending machines in the rec hall. He never talked to us and pretty much kept to himself. He seemed like a really nice man. I think that he wanted to see our reaction to the movie. I became a "Born Again" at that time because the counselors were instructed to evangelize to the campers as part of the summer program. I was 13 years old when I became a born-again! 👼
@cantseeneedcaps
Жыл бұрын
@Dali_Hemmingway, THAT'S PRETTY COOL.
@johnpalma7265
2 ай бұрын
@dali_hemingway2197: Interesting, thanks.
This movie gave me shit cramps and goose chills! Thanks, I just got saved!
I did not expect the ending of this. I thought it was just another film noir. But being a Christian I was pleasantly surprised. Nice little sermon there by Billy Graham.
Dear PizzaFlix, Thank you SO much for showing this movie. I am so glad this man came to the Lord Jesus and became a "new creature in Christ" and left his old life for a brand new one. I did the same thing all by myself in my living room in 1978 and I've never been the same!
"Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever." Beautiful movie. Thanks for uploading.
@vicentepineda1860
Жыл бұрын
Praised be Jesus. Thanks.
@EndtimeElijah
Жыл бұрын
The Lord brought His Word to pass and sent His Messenger: Due to men down the last 2,000 years misunderstanding the Word of God, (often due to ignorance) the pure understanding of the Word of God as the Apostles knew it had to be “RESTORED”. The Lord Jesus Christ must REMAIN in Heaven until the times of RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS: Acts 3:20 + 21. 20. And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21. Whom the heaven must receive until the times of RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. The word “RESTITUTION” means “RESTORE.” The Lord stated that He would send HIS END TIME PROPHET to “RESTORE” the Word of God, as the Apostles knew it. Matthew 17:11. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elijah truly shall first come, and RESTORE ALL THINGS. The Lord stated that He would send His End Time Prophet in THIS DAY. Malachi 4:5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet BEFORE the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. This Elijah prophet comes BEFORE, “The coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord,” which happens in THIS DAY. To recieve the Lord we MUST receive the MESSENGER who the Lord sends as the messenger is given the necessary understanding of the Word of God: John 13:20. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth WHOMSOEVER I SEND receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. We are now living in the last days, God has kept His word and sent His prophet, thereby “RESTORING” His word to His Bride. God has raised the dead on FIVE occasions through HIS CHOSEN VESSEL. God was photographed SIX times, (Veiled in the form of the Pillar of Fire) with HIS CHOSEN VESSEL. www.williambranhamstorehouse.com/pdf_downloads/the%20supernatural%20halo%20photograph.pdf The, “Elijah anointing,” (Concerning the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ) is used “TWICE” at each “Coming of the Lord.” The Lord kept His Word and sent His Messenger to THIS seventh and final Laodicean Church Age………. Revelation 3:14. And unto the ANGEL (MESSENGER) of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. Revelation 10:7. But in the days of the voice of the SEVENTH ANGEL, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. John the Baptist`s ministry fulfilled Isaiah`s prophecy: Matthew 3:3. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD, make his paths straight. John, “Prepared the way for the Lord,” John did NOT “Restore anything,” as that which would need to be restored, (The full understanding of the whole Bible,) had not yet been given. To have your sins forgiven, you MUST “Walk in the Light” (1 John 1:7) which is the manifested Word of God for YOUR DAY. The Bridegroom who is the “WORD” (John 1:1 + 14) will marry a “WORD” Bride, NOT a denominational bride. This site gives the information that you need: www.end-time-message.org/ kzread.info/dash/bejne/YnWsj9mHYc_Wnpc.html
@kimdurant2217
Жыл бұрын
Amen, Brother. Keep looking up. Our redemption draws nigh!
@vicentepineda1860
Жыл бұрын
@@kimdurant2217 Thanks. When the final revelation is made, then all as is known and experienced now, will change. Blessed be the name of our Lord Jesus forever. Peace always.
@youdodat2
Жыл бұрын
Amen
What a surprise ending! Billy Graham was changing lives even in the movies.
@billybob9961
Жыл бұрын
Based on a true story
I didn't know this had Billy Graham in it when I selected it. I haven't watched it yet but I will say when Mr. Graham was in Reno decades ago and I was invited to the event I said I'd think about it, I thought "In a pig's eye!", and when I heard the Lord say "It's now or never." I picked now. I went. I didn't really want to go but I went. Miracles took place. I was rescued and will soon be redeemed.
@EndtimeElijah
Жыл бұрын
The Lord brought His Word to pass and sent His Messenger: Due to men down the last 2,000 years misunderstanding the Word of God, (often due to ignorance) the pure understanding of the Word of God as the Apostles knew it had to be “RESTORED”. The Lord Jesus Christ must REMAIN in Heaven until the times of RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS: Acts 3:20 + 21. 20. And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21. Whom the heaven must receive until the times of RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. The word “RESTITUTION” means “RESTORE.” The Lord stated that He would send HIS END TIME PROPHET to “RESTORE” the Word of God, as the Apostles knew it. Matthew 17:11. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elijah truly shall first come, and RESTORE ALL THINGS. The Lord stated that He would send His End Time Prophet in THIS DAY. Malachi 4:5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet BEFORE the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. This Elijah prophet comes BEFORE, “The coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord,” which happens in THIS DAY. To recieve the Lord we MUST receive the MESSENGER who the Lord sends as the messenger is given the necessary understanding of the Word of God: John 13:20. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth WHOMSOEVER I SEND receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. We are now living in the last days, God has kept His word and sent His prophet, thereby “RESTORING” His word to His Bride. God has raised the dead on FIVE occasions through HIS CHOSEN VESSEL. God was photographed SIX times, (Veiled in the form of the Pillar of Fire) with HIS CHOSEN VESSEL. www.williambranhamstorehouse.com/pdf_downloads/the%20supernatural%20halo%20photograph.pdf The, “Elijah anointing,” (Concerning the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ) is used “TWICE” at each “Coming of the Lord.” The Lord kept His Word and sent His Messenger to THIS seventh and final Laodicean Church Age………. Revelation 3:14. And unto the ANGEL (MESSENGER) of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. Revelation 10:7. But in the days of the voice of the SEVENTH ANGEL, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. John the Baptist`s ministry fulfilled Isaiah`s prophecy: Matthew 3:3. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD, make his paths straight. John, “Prepared the way for the Lord,” John did NOT “Restore anything,” as that which would need to be restored, (The full understanding of the whole Bible,) had not yet been given. To have your sins forgiven, you MUST “Walk in the Light” (1 John 1:7) which is the manifested Word of God for YOUR DAY. The Bridegroom who is the “WORD” (John 1:1 + 14) will marry a “WORD” Bride, NOT a denominational bride. This site gives the information that you need: www.end-time-message.org/ kzread.info/dash/bejne/YnWsj9mHYc_Wnpc.html
@gmashello9010
11 ай бұрын
Great testimony!
@swissotto1
4 ай бұрын
Happy for you!
@bell9620
2 ай бұрын
Hey that’s fantastic, let’s carpool it then huh?
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS MOVIE. WHAT A GREAT MOVIE, REV. BILLY GRAMHAM WAS SO YOUNG THEN, AND HE HAS TOUCH SO MANY LIVES. GOD BLESS YOU.
@PizzaFLIX
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX
@rumpoh8039
3 ай бұрын
EVANGELISTS PREY ON THE VULNERABLE. THEY ARE ALL CON ARTISTS
Wonderful to see Billy Graham present the Gospel in a movie!
@nedludd7622
Жыл бұрын
The old con man. What a fraud.
@DavidRice111
Жыл бұрын
@@nedludd7622 A hardened heart cannot receive the Gospel of Truth. (remember you heard THAT when you face Judgement)
@nedludd7622
Жыл бұрын
@@DavidRice111 Superstitious nonsense. Only fools believe in the final judgement.
@reidwhitton6248
Жыл бұрын
@@DavidRice111 blah, blah, blah... did he convert his crooked buddy, Nixon?
@DavidRice111
Жыл бұрын
@@reidwhitton6248 YOU don't know that. No one but GOD & Nixon knows THAT. ~ Besides, Nixon's alleged offenses pale in comparison to all successive dim'ocrat "presidents".
Good movie! I always hope that the actors were touched in their souls when making pictures like this. Bought the son's book about his dad.
I just love films made in the '30's, '40's, and '50's! This is a good one. Thanks! 🍕🍕
I remember watching so many of these on late night TV in the 70's before VHS, DVD and Streaming.
The best ending of a movie ever Praise the Lord !!
As someone with a background in electronics this was a very interesting movie, as well as being very entertaining. The "vintage" cars were a bonus. Thanks, PizzaFlix.
Most Excellent! Wow who would have thought it ?🤦🏽♀️🤷🏾♀️🙋🏽👏🏾🙏🏾 Pizza 🍕 you done ✅ it again ! Amazing afternoon .😘
It was wonderful to get to hear Billy Graham again. His crusades have meant a lot to me in life and I miss them.
Wonderful. The actors of today could learn something from these stars.
@misskim2058
2 жыл бұрын
As could the viewers, too.
@glynisgibson3986
Жыл бұрын
His wife was loving but annoying.... However, great ending..
I do remember an uncle of mine who told of this. Thanks for the movie!!! 🍕🍺
This is the first time I’ve seen this movie 🍿. It’s great 👍.
You are just a marvel Pizzaflix. I appreciate so much what you are doing. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Captivating movie. Very moving score. I couldn’t stop watching. Thank you Pizza Flix
I enjoy these old movies. Didn’t see it turning out way it did. Truth was spoken in tent scene. Way to go i would like to see more like it.
Thank's Pizza Fix, I really enjoyed this movie.
Certified: It's a good one. Loved it.
Very good movie and unusual plot. Good actors and a couple of cameras is all they needed to put out some great entertainment. Thanks for the show~!!
Classic.....they just don't make movies like this anymore. Thank you pizza flix.
@PizzaFLIX
2 жыл бұрын
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Praise the Lord!
@JohnPMitten
4 жыл бұрын
Amen. Praise JESUS Forevermore.
I just watched it. I was not only impressed but inspired. The last words he spoke I just looked up (Proverbs). I believe it.
Cop: "Say buddy!? Don't you know wiretappings' illegal?! Good work Vaas!"
Thank you! 🌹
Thanks for this re upload. Looks a lot cleaner than the other upload.
A surprisingly well acted true drama. I don't remember seeing Georgia Lee before and see nothing of her in Wikipedia; a pity because she seems to have an allure in her acting, a pathos. Bill Williams never fails in the film to make you uneasy, unsure of what he'll do next - that's a gift ina film such as this.
@gmashello9010
11 ай бұрын
Hello! I was curious about her as well. Looks like she was done acting by 1975 and died in Garvin, Oklahoma, a small town not far from where I live. She was a very good actress. Wonderful movie.
AWESOME! GOD is good!
@michaelwertzy9808
5 жыл бұрын
Dogs are less evil
@roder51
4 жыл бұрын
@Hona Hona ^^^^^ Christard Irony.
@Psychiatrick
4 жыл бұрын
Billy Graham was a 33' "Free"mason. Nimrod invented "Free"masonry ... NImrod was a Cana'anite. Vatican is Hittite aka Cana'anite.
Brilliant. Thank you.
True Gem! 💎
WOW, WOW, I'VE NEVER SEEN A MOVIE LIKE THIS COME FROME HOLLYWOOD, WOW❕AND IT'S A OLD MOVIE THAT'S IN FOCUS
Thanx for uploading. Very interesting. I remember that the motion picture arm of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association was known as "Word Wide Pictures" by the mid-70s.
Great find!!!
THANK YOU
Wow had no idea that Billy Graham ended the movie with positivity....man changing his ways. ❤
Jayzus. What a wonderful channel !!!
Great as always 😊😊
Amazing movie & even better ending A++++
Great movie 👍
Wow! Who kmew. I was not expecting that! 🤔😃
If anyone’s interested, Bill Williams went on to star in the TV series The Adventures of Kit Carson. He married Barbara Hale, who played the secretary in TV series Perry Mason, and their son is William Kat who starred in the TV series The Greatest American Hero. I think I watch way too much TV.
@jacquelineharrod6386
3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating facts. Thank you.😁
Mail carriers today don't chat with the people on their routes....gotta get out all those Amazon packages!
@sohara....
Жыл бұрын
Yes - it was a great opening scene, full of *friendliness & good humour.* A good setup.
I was enjoying this movie until Billy Graham..... .
One of the best movies I've seen. When Jim got saved, born again, made it the best. I remember when I came to the Lord, no I hadn't been involved with the mob, but might as well been. There's nothing like salvation with Jesus, He does truley, set you FREE. GLORY TO HIS NAME. 🙏 ✝️ ❤
Much better than I initially expected. ✅🕆
good movie,loved the ending in faith
Great movie. Crime does not pay in the long run.
Jesus changes hearts. He sure rescued me from a terrible life set on self-destruction. My body has not recovered from the sin but my Spirit has. Thank you Lord for saving me. Wonderful film.
Though not born, when this wonderful movie was made, I really enjoyed it, be it cars, males/ females or human's nice behavior.
This whole movie is just like a pretext for an appearance by a young Billy Graham. Okay movie, interesting bit of history.
oh thank you send is old movie.
Originally released in August 1955. Bill agreed to star in this film because he wanted to appear in a something that not only WASN'T a Western, but also had nothing to do with his weekly syndicated Western series, "THE ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON" (in fact, when it ended the following year, he said that he never wanted to hear of it again, even though it continued in syndicated repeats through the late 1960's).
@gordonmorris6359
5 жыл бұрын
Barry I. Grauman Thanks for the info, I couldn't recall where his face was familiar from, other than supporting roles in westerns, but I liked the Kit Carson series when I was a kid and that's him alright!
@sebastiansalas3192
5 жыл бұрын
The
@angelsaltamontes7336
Жыл бұрын
But you can bet he cashed the checks. Just a different kind of syndicate, and by the late '60s stars were pulling in $3, $4, even $5 a month in residuals!
My issue with this film is that the wife, with her constant badgering of him, could have gotten him killed. She was extremely immature to the point of actually being stupid, talking in public the way she did about his occupation. Hopefully the real life wife was nothing like that. Other than that, it's a pretty good low budget film noir with a religious twist at the end.
The boss gave him a $500 bill. I had to check on that. Last issued in 1969.
I nearly dumped it early on because he was so distastefully and consistently dishonest and I was thinking leopards don't change their spots. Looks like I was wrong and he really turned his life around. All credit to him.
as a recovering catholic this flick blew chunks when mr graham showed up.
Excellent
Great film .
What a great surprise ending !!
I enjoyed it and i got to see Billy
Goosebumps!
good movie --surprise ending !!!
Inspiring. ❤
Douglas Kennedy did a lot of B-movies and lone ranger episodes and was good at playing a heel.
This was the movie The STING was based on.
Didn’t see that coming ...
Interesting film. But with all the extra money, it seemed that the little wife only had one pair of earrings...
I saw Billy Graham in Spokane, WA. My hometown back in 1980ish. At the Football Stadium. My Mom and l walked there and saw him. It was my idea. My mom and l had to keep it a Secret. Today is her 80th Birthday. We haven't talked in years...
From Wikipedia article on Phil Tead (the postman in the opening scene of Wiretapper): Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1893, among his many roles, Tead might be best remembered as the semi-recurring character "Professor Pepperwinkle," an eccentric inventor, in several of the color episodes of the 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman. His appearances included the final episode, "All That Glitters." His first appearance had been as a shopkeeper named Mr. Willy, a similarly eccentric character.
@howardkerr8174
5 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if the taxi driver was the actor who played Abner Kravitz on Bewitched. He sounded a bit and looked a bit like him.
@gordonmorris6359
5 жыл бұрын
Howard Kerr I don't recognize the actor that portrayed the cabbie, but it wasn't George Tobias (Kravitz from Bewitched), already a well known veteran actor by 1955.
He went straight after getting a new furnished home and a new car.
omg what a crock of baloney-- those gangsters will just wait for the right time and make sure he meets his maker
Great movie
My dad used to do something very similar to this at Golden Gate Fields he would sit in the bleachers hold up a big number of which horse won and then his cousin would call in the bet to the bookies they made a few bucks until the race track caught them his cousin used binoculars from a phone booth it was all timing and small bets,Nothing fancy like the set up.
PizzaFlix rules. Strangely crafted movie with just the right touch of plausibility. Happy ending? Perhaps.
@PizzaFLIX
Жыл бұрын
Hi Sealight007 🍕Thanks for Watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you 🍕
They did a good job aging her from a teen look to someone who is about 30.
Nada menos que billy graham the preacher......en los 90 se lo conoció realmente,...
So good to hear when somebody, anybody meets the Lord in Hollywood.
A weak woman stands by and gives years of her life to a louse. Then adds two kids to be disappointed by him too. Ask any person with a crook as a parent. Nice to see him wake up. But people dont need Jesus to do so. Perfect ending would have been him walking into police station and she walking into mother’s home.
@rimonagoiti333
2 ай бұрын
You did not get the message of this film.
I should have read the description first. I want my money back.
AMEN!!
Hoghly reccomend... Deep message...
Good Movie.
Not very realistic-- those hoods would have never let him walk away alive knowing he could turn them all into the cops- at the very least they would have knocked him out and taken him somewhere else to kill him.
@jagdishacharya1438
3 жыл бұрын
In that era, goons, gangster did had the soul of Lord Jesus Christ. Present era Samatarian will promote Jack Ripper to the status of peers.
@jagdishacharya1438
3 жыл бұрын
In that era, goons, gangster did had the soul of Lord Jesus Christ. Present era Samatarian's action will promote Jack Ripper to the status of Sainthood.
Corny twist ending! 5 minutes in the audience, and Jim buys in? 😮🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️😂
Surprised they didn’t use Fulton Sheen instead of Graham. Share the stardom!! 🤩😇🤩
GOOD MOVIE ! INTERESTING TO SEE THE EVANGELIST BILLY GRAHAM IN HIS EARLY MINISTRY ! THIS MOVIE PROBABLY ADDED TO HIS POPULARITY ! HARD TO BELIEVE SO MANY FELL FOR HIS BIBLICAL NONSENSICAL RHETORIC ABOUT SIN, HELL AND SALVATION THAT CONTINUES EVEN TO THIS DAY !
Amen
The guy in the Hat killed the other guy in the Hat
Bill Williams not Graham Excellent movies and actors.
Really good movie except for the last 5 minutes
One more. RIGHT!!
BG old school preaching is far a few between. Give up your old life, sin? Oh no, Its all about tickling of the ears so I can feel comfortable living in sin & its frightening.
Say Jim Vaus could have met Chuck Colson, and they could have intercepted G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt and their own Brian, Bill and Charlie (the balance of the Watergate Five) before they went electric?
SPOILER............ALERT.........📢 What a disfunctional marriage. She looks 20 and he looks 45! He lies, red flags everywhere but she marries him, is unhappy and has two kids? Then he is converted after 5 minutes and the mob let's him go?!!!! 😂
@rimonagoiti333
2 ай бұрын
Pur God îs a miracole maker! Dont u know?