This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
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| Richard Basehart | ... | Roy Martin / Roy Morgan | |
| Scott Brady | ... | Police Sgt. Marty Brennan | |
| Roy Roberts | ... | Police Capt. Breen | |
| Whit Bissell | ... | Paul Reeves | |
| James Cardwell | ... | Police Sgt. Chuck Jones | |
| Jack Webb | ... | Lee Whitey | |
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In post WW II, Los Angeles, a cop's killed in the middle of the night. With no leads, the chief of police assigns Sgts. Jones and Brennan to investigate and apprehend the killer. They target low-level criminals, such as Paul Reeves, hoping he'll lead them to bigger fish, specially, the one who shot and killed the cop. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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10 May 1949 (Argentina) See more »Also Known As:
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United States Post Office Hollywood Station - 1615 Wilcox Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Despite wearing both shoulder holsters and belt ones, the police in the film never unbutton their coats to remove their handguns. Since drawing your weapon is more important than remaining fashionable, it's a certainty that they would unbutton before drawing. See more »Quotes
Narrator: And so the tedious quest went on. Sergeant Brennan wore out his shoes and his patience going from police station to police station, checking photos until his eyes were blurry. For police work is not all glamour and excitement and glory. There are days and days of routine, of tedious probing, of tireless searching. Fruitless days. Days when nothing goes right, when it seems as if no one could ever think his way through the maze of baffling trails a criminal leaves. But the answer to that is ...See more »
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HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948) has such a raw, bare-bones feel to it, a real "you are there" aura. A cheerless loner (Cold as an ice bomb Richard Basehart) kills a policeman. The search of the killer begins. This little B-film has so many unforgetable scenes, they drive in one after the other. (The police picking up every vagrant in the city searching for the cop killer, the look on the targeted cop's wife's face when she gets the bad news) My favorite scene is one that does not move the plot along, but creates such an uncomfortable mood. In it, Basehart tries to fish a bullet out of his arm at his sink as his dog yaps and whines in the background.
Well worth catching.