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Dragnet (1954)
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4 September 1954 (USA)
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This was the hottest case to hit the department! more
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Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member. full summary | full synopsis
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Grand Jury
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Organized Crime
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Police
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jack Webb | ... | Sgt. Joe Friday |
 | Ben Alexander | ... | Officer Frank Smith |
 | Richard Boone | ... | Capt .James E. Hamilton |
| Ann Robinson | ... | Officer Grace Downey |
| Stacy Harris | ... | Max Edward Troy |
| Virginia Gregg | ... | Mrs. Ethel Starkie |
| Vic Perrin | ... | Adolph Alexander, Asst. Chief Deputy D.A. (as Victor Perrin) |
| Georgia Ellis | ... | Belle Davitt |
| James Griffith | ... | Jesse Quinn |
| Dick Cathcart | ... | Roy Cleaver |
 | Malcolm Atterbury | ... | Lee Reinhard |
| Willard Sage | ... | Chester Davitt |
| Olan Soule | ... | Ray Pinker, Forensic Chemist |
 | Dennis Weaver | ... | Police Captain R.A. Lohrman |
| Monte Masters | ... | Fabian Gerard |
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The Original Dragnet (USA) (reissue title)
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88 min
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Color (Warnercolor)
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Film debut of Malcolm Atterbury.
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Quotes:
Captain R.A. Lohrman:
What about the victim, you think Starkey was in trouble?
Sgt. Joe Friday: He was at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
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Sgt. Joe Friday: He was at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
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Featured in Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
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Soundtrack:
Theme From Dragnet (Danger Ahead)
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Check out the Chrome on the shiny 1950's automobiles. Look carefully and you will see the clear plastic air-conditioning tubes inside the rear window of the Cadillac. Wood furniture (not fiberboard), non-filter cigarettes by the ton, neon signs, 8-miles per gallon autos. This is authentic 1950's retro (and wastefulness) at its best.
Expensive color film and fine film editing. First-class musical scoring is seamlessly blended into the movie.
"Dragnet" is a meticulously planned movie project. Looks like every scene was thought out well in advance of the actual production. Webb must have been a very hard-working movie craftsman.
Stylistically, Webb's brisk handling of actors and clipped, monotonous dialog is not appealing to my tastes, but directing style is in the eye of the beholder I suppose. His style is OK for television shows but less so in a full-length movie. However, this is a good crime movie and Webb at least gives it a kind of watchable uniqueness.
Modern TV's "Law and Order" breaks no new ground. This "Dragnet" movie has the cops and detectives, then the District Attorney, then some sort of judicial hearing, etc. And of course "Law and Order" doesn't have those big chrome dinosaurs.