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9 August 1949 (Sweden)
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Savage! ... Searing! ... True! more
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This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Richard Basehart | ... | Roy Martin / Roy Morgan | |
| Scott Brady | ... | Sgt. Marty Brennan | |
| Roy Roberts | ... | Capt. Breen | |
| Whit Bissell | ... | Paul Reeves | |
| James Cardwell | ... | Sgt. Chuck Jones (as Jimmy Cardwell) | |
| Jack Webb | ... | Lee |
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79 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Technical advisor for the film was Sgt. Marty Wynn of the Los Angeles Police Dept. During the course of shooting he fell into conversation with Jack Webb, then the star of radio's "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator", who had a small part in the film. Wynn suggested that Webb do a radio series based on actual police files. Thus was born the idea for "Dragnet," which debuted on NBC radio about four months after this film was released.
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Revealing mistakes: When running through the sewers, electric cords powering the the flashlights are visible
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Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
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HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948) has such a raw, bare-bones feel to it, a real "you are there" aura. A cheerless loner (Cold as an ice bomb Richard Basehart) kills a policeman. The search of the killer begins. This little B-film has so many unforgetable scenes, they drive in one after the other. (The police picking up every vagrant in the city searching for the cop killer, the look on the targeted cop's wife's face when she gets the bad news) My favorite scene is one that does not move the plot along, but creates such an uncomfortable mood. In it, Basehart tries to fish a bullet out of his arm at his sink as his dog yaps and whines in the background.
Well worth catching.