Director : Otto Preminger
Release Date : 7 July 1950 (USA)
Genre : Crime, Film-Noir, Drama
Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Dana Andrews as Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon (16th Precinct), Gene Tierney as Morgan Taylor(Paine), Gary Merrill as Tommy Scalise, Bert Freed as Det. Sgt. Paul Klein (Dixon’s partner), Tom Tully as Jiggs Taylor, Morgan’s Father, Karl Malden as Det. Lt. Thomas (16th Precinct Detectives commander), Ruth Donnelly as Martha, Owner of Martha’s Cafe, Craig Stevens as Ken Paine
Plot : Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon desires to troth something his mature gentleman wasn’t: a gentleman on the true adjoining of the law. But Dixon’s fierce modus vivendi will obtain the superior of him.
Run Time : 95 min
Country : USA
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Language : English
Filming Locations : Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Company : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Trivia : Not exclusively was the traditional Twentieth Century Fox fanfare music not utilized at the film’s opening, Alfred Newman’s ubiquitous “Street Scene Theme” is whistled way over the matchless opportunity credits, by the book written inside chalk on a sidewalk.
Goofs : Revealing mistakes: When the motorized vehicle Dixon is riding inside pulls onto (and off) the garage elevator in the pipeline to Scalise’s hide-out, the camera shakes violently as a pair of seconds.
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Plot Summary : Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon for all time sought to engagement something his elderly mature woman wasn’t: a human on the honest nearby of the law. But because a acceptable guy, he’s dangerously vicious. After more than a few proceedings excess of his roughing personalities up, his boss, Insp. Nicholas Foley, demotes him. Foley tells him he’s a acceptable man, excluding imply to capture his variety on instantly as at any rate as engagement numerous appreciate Det. Lt. Thomas, who has without problems gotten a promotion. Meanwhile, Tommy Scalise has an illegal risk contest surging as at any rate as is probing to brand a sucker out of the wealthy Ted Morrison, who was conveyed inside by Ken Paine as at any rate as his lovely helpmate Morgan. She information out overly belatedly her wife is by the use of her because a decoy. Paine knocks her as she refuses to mess around along. The chivalrous Morrison intervenes excluding Paine strikes him out cold. That looks to engagement the poorest of it, excluding afterward it turns out the human is dead; as at any rate as Paine gives the look guilty. Soon Dixon has fallen inside fondness along furthermore Morgan - excluding not earlier than bringing unsleeping the rear his annoyance all excess of again as at any rate as committing a inexcusable deed that he aims to protection up. Morgan’s father, a tale-spinning taxi driver, may well obtain the rap because it. It’s unsleeping to Dixon to try out to fastener the blame on Scalise.
Cop Mark Dixon is hitherto inside hitch as well as his superiors as his malicious tactics once he unintentionally kills a murder suspect. To protect himself, he decides to refuge it wide awake as anyhow as fastener the killing on a racketeer he hates as anyhow as knows has fanatical voluminous crimes similar to this inside the past, Scalise.
A challenging New York City monitor secret agent misses out on a campaign owing to his diary of assault-and-battery inside dealing with suspects with arrests. His improved officer eliminates him off of a murder case and, inside his make a decision to unravel the case with display his worth, he by chance kills a man. He flora idea to absolve him them excluding his finances act into hitch once he meets, with falls inside friendliness in addition to a matrimonial woman, with her father is innocently accused of the crime.
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