Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA police detective helps a singer heading to prison for the murder of a man she claims is still alive.A police detective helps a singer heading to prison for the murder of a man she claims is still alive.A police detective helps a singer heading to prison for the murder of a man she claims is still alive.
Tracey Roberts
- Patsy Flint
- (as Tracy Roberts)
Kate MacKenna
- Miss Sparrow
- (as Kate McKenna)
Harry Harvey
- Gas Station Attendant
- (as Henry W. Harvey Sr.)
Madge Cleveland
- Mrs. Thomas - Matron
- (sin acreditar)
William Fawcett
- Police Pathologist
- (sin acreditar)
John Indrisano
- Cop on Train Platform
- (sin acreditar)
Anthony Jochim
- Buckley - Motel Manager
- (sin acreditar)
Harold Miller
- Customer in Bar
- (sin acreditar)
Hank Patterson
- Medical Examiner
- (sin acreditar)
Robert Stevenson
- Dunlap - Shop Foreman
- (sin acreditar)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesFinal film of Barbara Payton.
- PifiasIn the first scene with Patsy Flint at the bar, her beauty mark (mole) is shown by her right eye; the 2nd scene with Patsy in her apartment shows the beauty mark next to her left eye.
- ConexionesReferenced in Broadway by Light (1958)
Reseña destacada
Ulmer's late noir shows glimmers of talent under limitations
A man's body is found face down in a fireplace, face and fingerprints charred beyond identification. Clues lead to his mistress, bar singer Barbara Payton (alas, we get to hear nary a note). Homicide cop Ray Patrick tracks her to a mountain cabin, but a blizzard forces them to spend a (chaste) night together, and she starts to get under his skin. On the train back to Los Angeles, she spots the man who was presumed murdered standing on a platform; against his better judgement, Patrick joins her on the lam to uncover the truth -- a confusing pastiche involving her roommate, a double blackmail scheme, the wrong body and, somehow, ceramic figurines....
Of all the directors who started out in European cinema but fled to America, Edgar G. Ulmer worked with the most crippling resources. In Murder Is My Beat, he returns to Detour's depressing terrain of thrown-together fugitives holing up in crummy motels. But instead of the full-tilt, well, savagery of Ann Savage, there's the catatonic passivity of Barbara Payton, a beaten-down, ill-used blonde. (How much of this depends on acting ability is anybody's guess. At this final outpost of her movie career -- five years earlier, she'd been James Cagney's moll in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye -- Payton had already begun her sad drift toward the demimonde.) Though the story relies too much on explication rather than exposition, its fatalistic inertia keeps the viewer interested but off balance. It's another cheapie noir saved from utter mediocrity by the genuine, if compromised, talents of its director.
Of all the directors who started out in European cinema but fled to America, Edgar G. Ulmer worked with the most crippling resources. In Murder Is My Beat, he returns to Detour's depressing terrain of thrown-together fugitives holing up in crummy motels. But instead of the full-tilt, well, savagery of Ann Savage, there's the catatonic passivity of Barbara Payton, a beaten-down, ill-used blonde. (How much of this depends on acting ability is anybody's guess. At this final outpost of her movie career -- five years earlier, she'd been James Cagney's moll in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye -- Payton had already begun her sad drift toward the demimonde.) Though the story relies too much on explication rather than exposition, its fatalistic inertia keeps the viewer interested but off balance. It's another cheapie noir saved from utter mediocrity by the genuine, if compromised, talents of its director.
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- 20 ene 2002
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- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- Títulos en diferentes países
- Danger is My Beat
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Empresa productora
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- Duración1 hora 17 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Murder Is My Beat (1955) officially released in Canada in English?
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