
Overview:
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.Status: | Released (1950-07-07) |
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Screen: | Ben Hecht, Victor Trivas, Frank P. Rosenberg |
Productions: | 20th Century Fox |
Production Countries: | United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English |

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- 13578: Dana Andrews - Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon
- 20124: Gene Tierney - Morgan Taylor
- 31503: Bert Freed - Det. Sgt. Paul Klein
- 10608: Gary Merrill - Tommy Scalise
- 9857: Karl Malden - Det. Lt. Thomas
- 19414: Tom Tully - Jiggs Taylor
- 30214: Ruth Donnelly - Martha
Crews
- 4341: Ben Hecht - Screenplay - Writing
- 834: Otto Preminger - Director - Directing
- 3358: Lyle R. Wheeler - Art Direction - Art
- 834: Otto Preminger - Producer - Production
- 138178: Frank P. Rosenberg - Adaptation - Writing
- 26175: Ben Nye - Makeup Artist - Costume & Make-Up
- 138178: Frank P. Rosenberg - Associate Producer - Production
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
Your job is to detect criminals, not to punish them. American city film noir directed by Otto Preminger with the screenplay written by Ben Hecht. The adaptation is from the novel "Night Cry" written by William L. Stuart and Joseph LaShelle provides the cinematography for the New ....
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"Dixon" (Dana Andrews) is an hard-nosed cop who likes to play by his own rules. Needless to say that puts him at odds with his superiors and ultimately leads to his demotion just as his contemporary "Thomas" (Karl Malden) is made lieutenant. Whilst all this disarray is distracting th ....
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