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2 September 1954 (USA)
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Down This Street Raced Dead-End Violence... Down This One Stretched Excitement Taut As Silk!
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When FBI Agent Zack Stewart is killed, Agent John Ripley takes over the three cases he was working on...
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One of those semi-documentary crime movies
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(Complete credited cast)| Broderick Crawford | ... | FBI Agent John 'Rip' Ripley | |
| Ruth Roman | ... | Kate Martell | |
| Martha Hyer | ... | Connie Anderson | |
| Marisa Pavan | ... | Julie Angelino | |
| Max Showalter | ... | Dave Millson (as Casey Adams) | |
| Kenneth Tobey | ... | FBI Agent Zack Stewart | |
| Gene Reynolds | ... | Vince Angelino | |
| William Johnstone | ... | FBI Chief Frank Pace | |
| Harlan Warde | ... | FBI Agent Greg Barker | |
| Jay Adler | ... | Uncle Max Charles Martell | |
| Claude Akins | ... | Matty Pavelich | |
| Suzanne Alexander | ... | Brenda Ralles | |
| Myra Marsh | ... | Mrs. Downes | |
| Joe Bassett | ... | Joe Walpo aka Joe Allen |
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Broderick Crawford as Agent Ripley takes over three cases for a murdered FBI man in "Down Three Dark Streets," a 1954 film also starring Ruth Roman, Marisa Pavan, Martha Hyer, and Max Showalter.
This is one of those police or FBI films done in semi-documentary style that abounded in the '50s. Each woman is involved in a crime; Roman is being threatened with her daughter's life if she doesn't turn over her late husband's insurance money; Pavan is the blind wife of a man jailed for being involved in car theft, but he won't reveal any information about the ring; and Hyer is the girlfriend of a wanted killer who is on the run. When two murders occur, Ripley is convinced they're tied to one of the cases, but which one? Great '50s LA sites are a highlight of this film, along with a suspenseful ending. The story involving Ruth Roman was done as a suspense movie but Blake Edwards later on as "Experiment in Terror" with Glenn Ford as Ripley.
There is one major plot hole I must point out. One of the FBI men follows a character to a department store, where she takes a girdle to try on and goes into a dressing room. The operative asks if there's an exit behind the dressing rooms and is told yes, there's a staircase leading to a back entrance. Well, all I can say is, that store must have had hundreds of thousands of dollars in shoplifted merchandise yearly if that was the case.