A man walks into a dress shop, pulls a gun, then points at the cash register. The clerk forks over 800 bucks. The man pockets the cash and his gun, and then calmly exits. He crosses the street and departs the scene on a city bus. The clerk, Jean Wiles, runs to the manager's office and tells him they have been robbed. San Fran Police detectives Tom Tully and Warner Anderson soon arrive to question the witnesses. Wiles gives them one description while store customer, Mary Hokanson, gives them the complete opposite, The detectives write this off as stress and jitters from the robbery. The detectives are then called to another robbery at a different dress shop. This time the suspect is caught. A little bit of the old third degree is applied to the suspect. This convinces Anderson and Tully the second robbery was a one off, and not connected to the first one. The next few days are spent digging into the background of the witnesses. Hokanson is a legal secretary with good references. Wiles though it seems has a boyfriend who is a two time loser. The boys dig a bit deeper and discover that the day after the robbery, Wiles paid a finance company 450 dollars in cash. The two pay a return visit to Wiles to question her about said payment. She gives them a story about borrowing the money. Anderson and Tully ask Wiles about her boyfriend. She clams up and the detectives decide to take her in. Just as they start for the door, the boyfriend, Bill Pullen, steps from the back room and opens fire. A brisk exchange of rounds brings Pullen down in a bloody pile. The ambulance boys are called and the cuffs slapped on Wiles.
This show is a straight forward, no nonsense Police procedural. It is nothing more, nothing less, and works quite well as such.
The director was Thomas Carr. The story was by Devallon Scott and the D of P was Nick Musuraca. Mursuraca is well known to all noir fans. He lensed, CAT PEOPLE, GHOST SHIP, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, DEADLINE AT DAWN, THE LOCKET, BLOOD ON THE MOON, WOMAN ON PIER 13, ROAD BLOCK, WOMAN IN DANGER, THE WHIP HAND, CLASH BY NIGHT, THE BLUE GARDENIA, SPLIT SECOND, THE HITCH-HIKER and OUT OF THE PAST.
This show is a straight forward, no nonsense Police procedural. It is nothing more, nothing less, and works quite well as such.
The director was Thomas Carr. The story was by Devallon Scott and the D of P was Nick Musuraca. Mursuraca is well known to all noir fans. He lensed, CAT PEOPLE, GHOST SHIP, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, DEADLINE AT DAWN, THE LOCKET, BLOOD ON THE MOON, WOMAN ON PIER 13, ROAD BLOCK, WOMAN IN DANGER, THE WHIP HAND, CLASH BY NIGHT, THE BLUE GARDENIA, SPLIT SECOND, THE HITCH-HIKER and OUT OF THE PAST.