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A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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“Is Dana Andrews the best thing in Where the Sidewalk Ends?”
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20237/10
"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 the police, criminal mastermind "Scalise" (Gary Merrill) is out to fleece wealthy sucker "Morrison" at a dice game but things at the game get a bit fraught and soon they have that man's body to contend with. "Dixon" likes to investigate with his fists and that leads him to a tragedy of his own, with even more complications as he is gradually falling in love with "Morgan" (Gene Tierney) who just happens to be a widow intricately connected with our story. We know who the culprits are, and we know who did what to whom - what helps this to work well is the way we are invited by Otto Preminger to take a perspective watching how the characters all deduce and find out. It's a violent story in a violent city and in the end you begin to wonder if the end does/did justify the means as the cat and mouse game nears it's lively finale. None of the actors here really stand out, but I think that works better at creating
Read the whole review on TMDB - John Chardon TMDB · Feb 20208/10
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 York City shoot. It stars Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully & Karl Malden, with support coming from Ruth Donnelly, Craig Stevens & Neville Brand. Tough New York cop Mark Dixon (Andrews) is constantly in trouble with his superiors for his heavy-handed treatment of suspects. When disaster strikes during an altercation with Ken Paine (Stevens), Dixon chooses an unethical route and attempts to frame a gangster nemesis called Tommy Scalise (Merill). However, things don't go according to plan and not only does Dixon find himself falling in love with Paine's wife, Morgan Taylor-Paine (Tierney), but also that he is now mired in a quagmire investigation which sees Morgan's father, Jiggs (Tully), accused of the crime he himself is responsible for. Where The Sidewalk Ends was the final film noir piece that Preminger made for 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Then a director for hire, the fil
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Cast
- Dana AndrewsDet. Sgt. Mark Dixon
- Gene TierneyMorgan Taylor
- Bert FreedDet. Sgt. Paul Klein
- Gary MerrillTommy Scalise
- Karl MaldenDet. Lt. Thomas
- Tom TullyJiggs Taylor
- Ruth DonnellyMartha
- Craig StevensKen Paine
- Fred AldrichDetective at Staff Meeting (uncredited)
- Tom ColemanDetective at Staff Meeting (uncredited)
Crew
- Otto PremingerDirector
- Ben HechtScreenplay
- William L. StuartNovel
- Joseph LaShelleDirector of Photography
- Cyril J. MockridgeOriginal Music Composer
- Louis R. LoefflerEditor
- Otto PremingerProducer
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