Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA detective's dilemma. A murder investigation is compromised by the detective's compromised position in love.A detective's dilemma. A murder investigation is compromised by the detective's compromised position in love.A detective's dilemma. A murder investigation is compromised by the detective's compromised position in love.
- Doc Cochrane
- (as Robert Stevens)
- Boy
- (sin créditos)
- Tusco
- (sin créditos)
- Dickstein
- (sin créditos)
- Doc Cochrane as a Boy
- (sin créditos)
- District Attorney Bill Halloran
- (sin créditos)
- Fat Man in Library
- (sin créditos)
- Reporter
- (sin créditos)
- Benjamin Merrill
- (sin créditos)
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Todo el elenco y el equipo
- Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro
Argumento
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaThe car the murderer uses is a rare 1933 Packard Standard Eight Coupe Roadster. In excellent condition in 2020 this car could sell for well over $100,000.
- ErroresAlthough the majority of the movie is a prolonged flashback set in the early 1930s, absolutely everything (with the exception of a few vintage cars) - hairstyles, wardrobe, music and decor, is strictly contemporary 1946, without the slightest attempt at accuracy.
- Citas
Jill Merrill: I don't need you, I can buy and sell you.I don't know why I bother seeing you.
Tony Cochrane: You don't know why? I'll tell you. You're rotten rich through and through.Like something they serve at the Ritz,only its been laying out in the sun too long.
Jill Merrill: That's right, Tony, you're not my kind. The clean cut type.Little tootsie-wootsie loves her great big stupid peasant.
Tony Cochrane: Yeah, for all your dough, like a ton of bricks!
Jill Merrill: How picturesque. And you were totally unresponsive?
Tony Cochrane: You're like a sickness. I was sick!
Jill Merrill: No, Tony it was a fever!
Tony Cochrane: Its a nightmare! With convulsions!
- ConexionesSpin-off Night Editor (1954)
"You are just no good for me. We both add up to zero"
A raging "B" pic out of Columbia? Absolutely! This is something of a film noir lovers delight. There is no getting away from the fact it has one of those endings that has proved to be divisive, so how it stacks up for first time viewers now may make or break your opinion of it...
Story finds copper Tony Cochrane (Gargan) having a love affair with viper like Jill Merrill (Carter), this in spite of the fact he has a gorgeous loving wife and a son who worships him. During one of the illicit couple's love trysts they witness a violent murder, and fearing scandal Cochrane fails to uphold the law. From such decisions does life often spiral out of control...
Okies. So we got hot and sweaty scenes, flashbacks, wet streets lit by lamps, alleyways, barely lighted rooms - particularly the station offices - symbolic and metaphorical sequences (oh my those crashing waves), but it's the barbed dialogue, the blend of sex and violence, and a femme fatale of considerable greatness, that ultimately makes this soar.
Personally I hate the ending, but as stated before, I do know noir lovers who find it cheeky and enjoyable. Yet even with my irritation at the finale - and of Carter's hair style (which pushes Phyllis Dietrichson for most unflattering look), there's just so much good here for noir lovers not to enjoy greatly. 7.5/10
- hitchcockthelegend
- 5 ago 2016
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Detalles
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 8 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1