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  • Actors: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully
  • Directors: Otto Preminger
  • Writers: Frank P. Rosenberg, Ben Hecht, Robert E. Kent, Victor Trivas, William L. Stuart
  • Producers: Otto Preminger, Frank P. Rosenberg
  • Format: Black & White, Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Bfi Video
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Mar 2004
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001GNJFG
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 39,949 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Dana Andrews stars as brutal cop Mark Dixon who previously had been in trouble with his superiors for his brutal methods. When Dixon accidently kills a murder suspect he knows his career will be over if he is discovered. He decides to dispose of the body and pin the murder on someone else. However events get murkier when he falls for the dead man's wife and her father becomes the prime suspect for the murder. Dixon only finds redemption when he pays the ultimate price.

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The original Dirty Harry: complex and challenging, 7 April 2005
From the fantastic opening sequence in which the credits are scrawled graffiti-style on the sidewalk and the camera closes in on filthy rainwater rushing down the gutter, this movie employs a series of interesting and offbeat visual, structural and sonic devices to explore its themes of fate and corruption and to keep the viewer constantly surprised and challenged. Preminger's refusal to emotionally signpost the narrative with an intrusive musical score allows the crackling of police radios, the rattling of subway trains and the ambient traffic noise to form a kind of realistic soundtrack to the film. Absence of musical pointers also intensifes the moral ambiguity of the protagonist's actions. Long scenes (such as the beautifully taut sequence filmed beneath the Brooklyn Bridge in which Dana Andrews disposes of the body of Gene Tierney's estranged husband) take place in virtual silence, inviting us to construct our own moral perspective and to concentrate on the gorgeous deep-focus black and white photography. Structurally, too, Preminger keeps us on our toes. The scene which in any other film would be the climax of the action, involving an inevitable shoot-out and a quick resolution of the story's moral conflicts, is here omitted completely: we simply hear about it afterward. For some viewers this might be disconcerting, but its effect is to sustain the ambiguity to the end and to leave the destiny of the central character somewhat unresolved. It's as fitting and complex an ending as the studio system would allow to Ben Hecht's clever and twisty screenplay which piles cruel irony on top of cruel irony for Detective Dixon, "half cop, half killer" as the bad guy calls him, driven by a hatred for hoodlums which is exceeded only by hatred of himself. As the original vigilante cop, the grim-faced Dana Andrews brilliantly conveys this unstable brew of vicious anger and self-loathing. By contrast, Gene Tierney's role as the good-girl saviour of our shadowy hero is slightly trite. It's the most conventional thing about this challenging and intriguing movie. The restored print used on the BFI's DVD edition is immaculate.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Didnt keep me interested, 28 Feb 2005
By Miguel M. Santos "miguelmsantos" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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One of the BFI's film noir releases this film didn't kept me too interested. There are a few reasons for that. One is that Dana Andrews is a bit too wooden for the lead (far more than the part requires). Another is that the plot never goes as smoothly as it should - which strange since the screenwriter is one of Hollywood's all time best - but I wonder how much miscasting has to do with it. None of the actors are really suitable for their parts, with the possible exception of Gary Merrill as the villain. There are some interesting moments, though, and the theme of corruption is still fairly well explored. I was drawn to the film mostly because Gene Tierney was in it, but her part so too small and two-dimensional that made me wonder why she accepted it. I wasn't expecting "Laura II" but the film really left me cold.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Why are you always trying to push me in the gutter?' he asks Andrews. 'I have as much right on the sidewalk as you.', 25 Sep 2009
By Peter Wade (Colchester England) - See all my reviews
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Why are you always trying to push me in the gutter?' he asks Andrews. 'I have as much right on the sidewalk as you.'


I have recently become a fan of film noir so I look for them wherever I can. This is a very good example with Dana Andrews. I thought his best role was in Best Years of of Lives when he came back from the war a disillusioned out of work pilot in the air force having to return to his job as a soda jerk.

In this he is a tough cop who hates criminals and lets them know by using his fists. He gets warned by his bosses and demoted as a result.The film noir was reputedly created by Europeans who ran away from Hitler and they depicted the US like the Europe they had left therefore it was full of bent coppers and mobsters on the take.

He goes after the baddies and comes across a drunk who goes for him and after hitting his head dies. Dan Andrews tries to hide the death by taking the body in taxi and dumping it. He then has to investigate the death and falls in love with the widow.

The father in law becomes a suspect and this is a person who really admires the tough cop as he met him a few years before. This puts Dana Andrews in a dilemma because he doesn't want a innocent man blamed for the murder.He tries to pin it in on the local mobster

He allows himself to get beaten up by the baddies then sorts them out and gets a recommendation. He then has to tell his bosses that it was he who killed the drunk and his new girlfriend the widow stills loves him and says she will wait.

It is the ultimate in self sacrifice.

A great film and it all turns out well in the end. He was haunted by the fact that his day was a thief and he didn't want to be branded as being the same as his dad so it was all about redemption and being saved by a good woman.



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