He Walked by Night: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell (1948 Movie)
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com He Walked by Night (1948) is a black-and-white police procedural film noir, crediting Alfred L. Werker as director. The film, shot in semidocumentary tone, was allegedly based on the real-life actions of Erwin „Machine-Gun“ Walker. During production, one of the actors, Jack Webb, struck up a friendship with the police technical advisor, Detective Sergeant Marty Wynn, and was inspired by a conversation with Wynn to create the radio and later television program Dragnet. He Walked by Night was released by Eagle-Lion Films and is notable for the camera work by renowned noir cinematographer John Alton. Today the film is in public domain. On a Los Angeles street, Officer Hollis, a patrolman on his way home from work, stops a man he suspects of being a burglar and is shot and mortally wounded. The minor clues lead nowhere. Two police detectives, Sergeants Marty Brennan (Brady) and Chuck Jones (Cardwell), are assigned to catch the killer, Roy Morgan (Basehart), a brilliant mystery man with no known criminal past, who is hiding in a Hollywood bungalow and listening to police calls on his custom radio in an attempt to avoid capture. His only relationship is with his little dog. Roy consigns burgled electronic equipment to Paul Reeves (Whit Bissell), and on his fifth sale is nearly caught when he shows up to collect on his property. Reeves tells police that the suspect is a mystery man named Roy Martin. The case crosses the paths of …
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If they wanted his finger prints they should have checked his car. When he shot the police man and ran to his car he reached down and put his hand on the fender of the police car when he went around it. He got into his car touching the door when he opened it and put his hand outside the window touching the door when he closed it. His prints would be on the steering wheel also. Great movie to watch. Thanks for the uploads. P.S. the correction checker helps a lot.
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Is that Ray Goulding of Bob and Ray doing the narration?
Love this~ classic
Johnny Rosselli of JFK and Mafia fame and whose dismembered body (legs and head cut off and body stuffed into an oil drum ) and dumped in Dumb Foundling Bay(?) had something to do with this film. Was he the assistant director? There is a scene where a police man sitting in a car is approached by a gunman. The cop gets out of the car goes toward the man and is shot to death. Shades of the Oswald / Officer Tippit encounter???
Also noticed the ending, where the criminal is trying to escape through the sewer system in LA. This movie came a year or two before „The Third Man“ which featured a similar climax. Some borrowing, perhaps?
This is the origin of „Dragnet.“ Jack Webb, in a small roll as a crime lab technician, got the idea of dramatizing stories using real police files, as well as using a documentary style of storytelling. Webb even used the last line of the introduction (the names have been changed etc.) as one of the signatures of „Dragnet.“
Basehart proves he is one of the greats.
„How about my army discharge? I got it right here“ Lol…Can’t believe i finally found it, thank you @nologorecords
Thanks for the upload – I love movies from this era.