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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| William Lundigan | ... | Police Lt. Harry Grant | |
| Dorothy Patrick | ... | Ann Gorman | |
| Jeff Corey | ... | Police Sgt. Art Collins | |
| Nestor Paiva | ... | Benny | |
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Charles D. Brown | ... | Police Insp. Mulvaney |
| Paul Guilfoyle | ... | Overbeck | |
| Edwin Max | ... | Charlie Roy aka The Judge | |
| Frank Ferguson | ... | J.C. McGill | |
| Marlo Dwyer | ... | Waitress | |
| Archie Twitchell | ... | Dixon (as Michael Branden) | |
| Douglas Spencer | ... | Phony Judge | |
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For six months, a strangler has terrorized the city. Calling himself The Judge, he's a self-appointed destroyer of 'evil' who only strikes on rainy nights. Police Lieut. Harry Grant is obsessed with catching him but has failed so far, despite varied clues. And now Harry is further hampered by attractive tabloid reporter Ann Gorman dogging his footsteps. Compactly crafted film with some effective thrills. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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bare chested male | reference to jack the ripper | reference to bluebeard | police partner | police procedural |Taglines:
Police baffled by the FACELESS KILLER!Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
14 July 1949 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
L'assassin sans visage See more »Filming Locations:
RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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According to an article in the June 28, 1948 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Kent Smith was announced as the male lead in this picture. See more »Goofs
When Harry is unbuttoning his shirt to take a shower. He has it half way unbuttoned, then in the next shot he is seen unbuttoning it all over again. See more »Quotes
J.C. McGill: I always wanted to throw something out of that window. Ha, I didn't know it would be me.See more »
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Follow Me Quietly casts William Lundigan in a B picture police drama out of RKO as a detective assigned to what we now would be calling a serial killer. A man who strangles his victims and then leaves cut out notes at the crime scenes saying he killed these individuals in some kind of retribution and signs himself the Judge.
When watching Follow Me Quietly it reminded me of the Agatha Christie story Ten Little Indians which has been filmed a few times and where the perpetrator is in fact a terminally ill judge gathering victims on an island and killing them one by one for crimes he feels that the normal justice system hasn't dealt with.
Which is the main problem with Follow Me Quietly, we are never given an answer as to how the Judge's victims are selected. All we do know is that rain somehow sets his psychosis off.
In one respect the film is quite modern. One of the tools that Lundigan and partner Jeff Corey use is to reconstruct a faceless dummy of the approximate height and weight of the Judge using whatever forensic clues have been found at crime scenes. This is years ahead of when that kind of forensic tool was used, it's like a three dimensional mugshot and it helps in bringing the judge down.
A little more work on the story and Follow Me Quietly could have been a classic noir.