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Dial 1119

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Leon Ames, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene, and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)
An escaped mental patient causes havoc.
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An escaped psychiatric patient causes havoc.An escaped psychiatric patient causes havoc.An escaped psychiatric patient causes havoc.
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    • Gerald Mayer
    • John Monks Jr.(screen play by)
    • Hugh King(from a story by)
    • Don McGuire(from a story by)
  • Stars
    • Marshall Thompson
    • Virginia Field
    • Andrea King
    • Gerald Mayer
    • John Monks Jr.(screen play by)
    • Hugh King(from a story by)
    • Don McGuire(from a story by)
  • Stars
    • Marshall Thompson
    • Virginia Field
    • Andrea King
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 38User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
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    Virginia Field and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)
    Leon Ames, Keefe Brasselle, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene, and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)
    Hal Baylor, Sam Levene, and Richard Rober in Dial 1119 (1950)
    Leon Ames, Keefe Brasselle, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene, and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)
    Leon Ames, James Bell, Keefe Brasselle, Virginia Field, Andrea King, and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)
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    Virginia Field and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)
    Sam Levene and Richard Rober in Dial 1119 (1950)
    Sam Levene and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)
    Andrea King, Sam Levene, Gerald Mayer, and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)
    Leon Ames, James Bell, Keefe Brasselle, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene, and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)
    Leon Ames, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene, and Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119 (1950)

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    Marshall Thompson
    Marshall Thompson
    • Gunther Wyckoff
    Virginia Field
    Virginia Field
    • Freddy
    Andrea King
    Andrea King
    • Helen
    Sam Levene
    Sam Levene
    • Dr. John Faron
    Leon Ames
    Leon Ames
    • Earl
    Keefe Brasselle
    Keefe Brasselle
    • Skip
    Richard Rober
    Richard Rober
    • Captain Henry Keiver
    James Bell
    James Bell
    • Harrison D. Barnes
    William Conrad
    William Conrad
    • Chuckles the Bartender
    Dick Simmons
    Dick Simmons
    • Television Announcer
    Hal Baylor
    Hal Baylor
    • Lt. 'Whitey' Tallman
    • (as Hal Fieberling)
    Joel Allen
      John Alvin
      John Alvin
      • Television Director
      • (uncredited)
      Walter Bacon
      • Onlooker in Crowd
      • (uncredited)
      Al Bain
      Al Bain
      • Onlooker in Crowd
      • (uncredited)
      Bill Baldwin
      Bill Baldwin
      • Reporter
      • (uncredited)
      Barbara Billingsley
      Barbara Billingsley
      • Dorothy - Editor's Secretary
      • (uncredited)
      Argentina Brunetti
      Argentina Brunetti
      • Bus Passenger
      • (uncredited)
        • Gerald Mayer
        • John Monks Jr.(screen play by)
        • Hugh King(from a story by)
        • Don McGuire(from a story by)
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      • Trivia
        Chuckles the bartender (William Conrad says the projection television cost him $1,400 - an amount which equates to about $15,500 in 2020.
      • Goofs
        Perhaps a joke by the set designer, the dashboard of the bus in an early scene shows an air conditioner control with the settings HEATING, OFF and "MANUEL" COOLING.
      • Connections
        Featured in The Case Against the 20% Federal Admissions Tax on Motion Picture Theatres (1953)

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      7/10
      Brutally Uncompromising
      Marshall Thompson broke new casting grounds in playing the criminally insane escaped mental patient in Dial 1119. This film was out of the B picture unit at MGM and was far more likely to have previously come from a studio like RKO or Columbia. MGM was one of the last big studios to put out a realistic type noir film like this one.

      Time and circumstances get six people trapped in a bar in the fictitious Terminal City where Thompson after taking a weapon from a bus driver and killing him over it, he holds up in a bar. When the news comes over the bar television, Thompson shoots bartender William Conrad and holds the other customers which include Virginia Field, Andrea King, Leon Ames, Keefe Brasselle, and James Bell as hostages.

      Thompson had been convicted once of murder, but was declared insane and given a life sentence at an asylum due to the work of psychiatrist Sam Levene. A fact that police captain Richard Rober won't let him forget. They have a lot to say to each other during the course of the film.

      Dial 1119 moves at a pretty good pace and not a minute of its 75 minute running time is wasted. The lack of really big movie names no doubt helps create the realistic aura of the film.

      Marshall Thompson usually played good guys and will ever be remembered as Daktari from the television show. I suspect he never got roles like this again because the public wouldn't accept him just like Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley.

      This film is brutally uncompromising on its view of the death penalty. Opponents of capital punishment will not be pleased, but Dial 1119 is still a great noir film.
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      • Release date
        • November 3, 1950 (United States)
        • United States
        • English
        • Italian
      • Also known as
        • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
      • Production company
        • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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      • 1 hour 15 minutes
        • Black and White

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