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Director:
William Dieterle
Writers:
Warren Duff (writer)
Horace McCoy (story)
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Release Date:
15 November 1952 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Film-Noir | Drama
Plot:
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city, and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator... more | add synopsis
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The captive city bis. more

Cast

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William Holden ... Jerry McKibbon

Edmond O'Brien ... John Conroy

Alexis Smith ... Amanda Waycross
Tom Tully ... Matt Conroy

Ed Begley ... Neil Eichelberger
Danny Dayton ... Roy Ackerman
Adele Longmire ... Carmelina LaRue
Ray Teal ... Clint, Police Captain
Ted de Corsia ... Harrigan
Don Porter ... Joe Silbray
Howard Freeman ... Fogel
Neville Brand ... Red
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
This Is Dynamite! (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
The captive city bis., 22 April 2004
Author: dbdumonteil

Robert Wise's "the captive city" was released the same year and it's roughly the same subject .William Dieterle's work is not as absorbing because his directing is too static and academic in spite of a good cast.Melodramatic elements interfere with the film noir treatment -the father trying to redeem himself after behaving very bad,but he did it in order to pay his son 's studies etc etc -.Fortunately,the last sequence avoids pathos .Wise's film was more interesting because the enemy was almost invisible and the stranglehold it had on the town was complete though.In Dieterle's movie ,in spite of a lot of violence,we never really feel a threatening atmosphere.

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