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He Walked by Night ()

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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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Roy Martin / Roy Morgan
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Police Sgt. Marty Brennan
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Police Capt. Breen
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Paul Reeves
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Police Sgt. Chuck Jones
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Lee Whitey
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
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Paranoid Housewife (uncredited)
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Nurse Scanion (uncredited)
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Witness in Pajamas and Robe (uncredited)
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Miss Montalvo (uncredited)
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Detective with Capt. Breen (uncredited)
Chief Bradley ...
Chief Bradley (uncredited)
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Pete Hammond (uncredited)
Dolores Castelli ...
Witness (uncredited)
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Chinese Suspect (uncredited)
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Patrolman (uncredited)
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Assistant Bureau Chief (uncredited)
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Dispatcher (uncredited)
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Young Hoodlum (uncredited)
Michael Dugan ...
Patrolman (uncredited)
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Spanish-Speaking Detective (uncredited)
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Freddie (uncredited)
Kay Garrett ...
Doctor (uncredited)
George Goodman ...
Punchy (uncredited)
Tim Graham ...
Uniformed Sergeant (uncredited)
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Suspect (uncredited)
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Narrator (uncredited) (voice)
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Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
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Dunning (uncredited)
Peter Hobbes ...
Milkman (uncredited)
Virginia Hunter ...
Miss Smith (uncredited)
Felice Ingersoll ...
Records Clerk (uncredited)
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Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Stan Johnson ...
Artist (uncredited)
Louise Kane ...
Mrs. Rawlins (uncredited)
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Redhead (uncredited)
Donald Kerr ...
Mailman (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
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Police Sergeant (uncredited)
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Detective with Harry (uncredited)
Doyle Manor ...
Detective (uncredited)
Dick Mason ...
Mailman (uncredited)
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Handsome (uncredited)
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Officer Robert Rawlins (uncredited)
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Hollywood Police Official (uncredited)
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Miss Montavio (uncredited)
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Detective (uncredited)
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Lt. Greeson (uncredited)
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Harry (uncredited)
John Parrish ...
Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
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Detective (uncredited)
John Perri ...
Young Hoodlum (uncredited)
Ruth Robinson ...
Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
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Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Harry Seymour ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
Earl Spainard ...
Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Florence Stephens ...
Receptionist (uncredited)
Bernie Suss ...
Business Suspect (uncredited)
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Detective Questioning Pete (uncredited)
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Postman (uncredited)
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Police Operator 27 (uncredited)
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Reeves' Secretary (uncredited)
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Detective (uncredited)
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Prison Inmate (uncredited)
Marty Wynn ...
Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Directed by

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Alfred L. Werker ... (as Alfred Werker)
Anthony Mann ... (uncredited)

Written by

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John C. Higgins ... (screenplay) and
Crane Wilbur ... (screenplay)
 
Harry Essex ... (additional dialogue)
 
Crane Wilbur ... (original story)

Produced by

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Bryan Foy ... producer
Robert Kane ... producer (as Robert T. Kane)

Music by

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Leonid Raab

Cinematography by

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John Alton ... director of photography

Editing by

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Alfred DeGaetano ... (as Alfred De Gaetano)

Art Direction by

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Edward L. Ilou ... (as Edward Ilou)

Set Decoration by

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Armor Marlowe
Clarence Steensen ... (as Clarence Steenson)

Makeup Department

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Joe Stinton ... makeup artist
Ern Westmore ... makeup artist

Production Management

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James T. Vaughn ... production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Howard W. Koch ... assistant director

Sound Department

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Leon Becker ... sound (as Leon S. Becker)
Hugh McDowell Jr. ... sound (as Hugh McDowell)

Special Effects by

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Jack Rabin ... special art effects (as Jack R. Rabin)

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George J. Teague ... photographic effects

Camera and Electrical Department

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George Hommel ... still photographer (uncredited)
E. Truman Joiner ... key grip (uncredited)
Lester Shorr ... camera operator (uncredited)

Music Department

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Irving Friedman ... musical director

Script and Continuity Department

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Arnold Laven ... script supervisor (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Stewart Stern ... dialogue director
Marty Wynn ... technical advisor (as Sergeant Marty Wynn)
Crew believed to be complete

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Other Companies

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  • RCA (sound system)

Storyline

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Plot Summary

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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Taglines Savage! ... Searing! ... True! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Twenty-Nine Clues (United States)
  • The L.A. Investigator (United States)
  • Il marchait la nuit (France)
  • Orden: Caza sin cuartel (Spain)
  • Ordre: Caça sense treva (Spain, Catalan title)
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  • 79 min
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Trivia Technical advisor for the film was Sgt. Marty Wynn of the Los Angeles Police Dept. During the course of shooting, he fell into conversation with Jack Webb, then the star of radio's "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator", who had a small part in the film. Wynn suggested that Webb do a radio series based on actual police files. Thus was born the idea for "Dragnet," which debuted on NBC radio about four months after this film was released. See more »
Goofs When Martin flees from his bungalow into the sewer system, the first shot shows him running with a flashlight and a bag in his hand. This is the same shot as used earlier on in the film after he started robbing liquor stores. (In this later scene, he did not have a bag when he fled the bungalow nor when he entered the sewers.) See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Big Combo (1955). 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 persistence and the hope that, sooner or later, something will turn up, some tiny lead that can grow into a warm trail and point to the cracking of a tough case.
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