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20 June 1952 (France)
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In One Strange Night she met both LOVE ... and MURDER!
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Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate...
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Car Accident
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Blindness
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Bernard Hermann Tributes On Turner Classic Movies Every Tuesday In September
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Is it a thriller? Is it a character study? Romance? One of the most interesting movies of the 1950s with another superb performance from Robert Ryan.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Ida Lupino | ... | Mary Malden | |
| Robert Ryan | ... | Jim Wilson | |
| Ward Bond | ... | Walter Brent | |
| Charles Kemper | ... | Pop Daly | |
| Anthony Ross | ... | Pete Santos | |
| Ed Begley | ... | Capt. Brawley | |
| Ian Wolfe | ... | Sheriff Carrey | |
| Sumner Williams | ... | Danny Malden | |
| Gus Schilling | ... | Lucky | |
| Frank Ferguson | ... | Willows | |
| Cleo Moore | ... | Myrna Bowers | |
| Olive Carey | ... | Mrs. Brent | |
| Richard Irving | ... | Bernie Tucker | |
| Patricia Prest | ... | Julie Brent (as Pat Prest) |
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Dark Highway (USA) (working title)
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82 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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A hand-held camera was used in many scenes to give a "live action" feel to those sequences. This was extremely rare in feature films of the time.
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Crew or equipment visible: When Jim Wilson delivers Tucker to the police station and then walks away, shadows of people are cast on him (among them, someone wearing a hat), although in the next shot the street is totally empty.
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Mary Malden:
Tell me, how is it to be a cop?
Jim Wilson: You get so you don't trust anybody.
Mary Malden: [who is blind] You're lucky. You don't have to trust anyone. I do. I have to trust everybody.
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Jim Wilson: You get so you don't trust anybody.
Mary Malden: [who is blind] You're lucky. You don't have to trust anyone. I do. I have to trust everybody.
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Referenced in The Best of Film Noir (1999) (V)
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'On Dangerous Ground' is a very original and striking movie, one of the most interesting to come out of 1950s Hollywood. The movie is in two halves. The first is urban and sees Robert Ryan play Jim Wilson a brutal but seemingly moral cop who appears to be on the brink of a complete breakdown. His character could well be the toughest cop ever seen on screen until the early 1970s heyday of Dirty Harry and Popeye Doyle,etc. The second half is rural, with Wilson being sent out of the city to investigate the murder of a young girl (shades almost of Stellan Skarsgard in 1997's 'Insomnia'). There he encounters a local blind woman (Ida Lupino), the sister of his number one suspect. The first half is as I said, extremely tough, the second half is ALMOST a mystery (yet it's obvious who the murderer is), and ALMOST a romance (but handled in a very subtle and "unHollywood" way). It's an odd combination but really works because the script lacks cliches, Nicholas "Rebel Without A Cause" Ray's direction is very fresh and inventive, and the acting is first rate. Lupino makes the most of her supporting role, as does Ward Bond ('The Searchers') as the father of the murdered girl, and Sumner Williams as Lupino's disturbed younger brother, but Robert Ryan steals the movie. I'm beginning to regard Ryan as one of the most underrated screen actors of all time. Just watch him in this, the boxing classic 'The Set-Up', 'Crossfire', 'Bad Day At Black Rock', and of course, 'The Wild Bunch' and see what I mean. 'On Dangerous Ground' deserves a much larger audience. Highly recommended.