Top billed cast

1. 

   Richard Basehart

   Roy Martin / Roy Morgan

2. 

   Scott Brady

   Police Sgt. Marty Brennan

3. 

   Roy Roberts

   Police Captain Breen

4. 

   Whit Bissell

   Paul Reeves

5. 

   James Cardwell

   Police Sgt. Chuck Jones

6. 

   Jack Webb

   Lee Whitey

7. 

   Reed Hadley

   Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

8. 

   Frank Cady

   Pete Hammond

9. 

   Dorothy Adams

   Milk Customer

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-09

This is actually quite a decent little murder mystery featuring the usually pretty uncharismatic Richard Basehart as a petty thief who kills a cop. The police chief allocates two detectives - Scott Brady and James Cardwell - with the seemingly impossible task of tracking down the criminal for a crime that nobody saw/heard etc... They start off by trawling the usual suspects and gradually begin to piece it together and to see the light. It's tensely directed with lots of help from Leonid Raab's score; some suitably eerie lighting and Crane Wilbur's adaptation of his own story is a bit more comp...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• police
• cop-killer
• film noir
• man hunt
• los angeles, california
• murder investigation
• lapd
• dragnet
• storm drain
• police procedural