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Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
DramaCrimefilm noirpolice corruptionpolice detectivedouble crosslie detectionantiques shophangarburlesque dancerpolice shootoutgang moll
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Character
Grave, earnest, classical in form and spare.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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Cast
- Cornel WildeLeonard Diamond
- Jean WallaceSusan Lowell
- Brian DonlevyJoe McClure
- Richard ConteMr. Brown
- Lee Van CleefFante
- Earl HollimanMingo
- Robert MiddletonPolice Capt. Peterson
- Helen WalkerAlicia Brown
- Jay AdlerDetective Sam Hill
- John HoytNils Dreyer
Crew
- Joseph H. LewisDirector
- Philip YordanWriter
- John AltonDirector of Photography
- Robert S. EisenEditor
- Sidney HarmonProducer
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