Directed by:
Roy RowlandScreenplay:
Charles SchneeCinematography:
Paul VogelComposer:
André PrevinCast:
Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, John McIntire, Donald Woods, Norman Lloyd, Jerome Cowan, Tom Helmore, Richard Irving (more)VOD (1)
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Van Johnson cracks heads and cases in this hardboiled crime thriller costarring Gloria DeHaven and Arlene Dahl, directed by Roy Rowland (The Girl Hunters) and written by Oscar®-winner* Charles Schnee (They Live by Night). Assigned to investigate the murder of a plainclothes detective outside a bookie joint, homicide lieutenant Mike Conovan (Johnson) must also prove the cop was not on the take after $1,000 is found in his pocket. Following a slim set of clues, Conovan is beaten, shot and double-crossed as he sets out to catch a killer and clear the detective's name. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Ray Bennett](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/676/161676374_e8f797.jpg)
Ray Bennett
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
Giant (1956)
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
![Franklyn Farnum](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/948/159948620_a1d5f2.jpg)
Franklyn Farnum
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Larry Steers
USA
Best movies:
The Gold Rush (1925)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Love Crazy (1941)
George Magrill
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Love Crazy (1941)
![William Haade](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/952/159952326_58cb3e.gif)
William Haade
USA
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Gregg Barton
USA
Best movies:
Morituri (1965)
Albuquerque (1948)
The Man from Laramie (1955)
![Anthony Caruso](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/109/309/109309504_303fcd.jpg)
Anthony Caruso
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
To Each His Own (1946)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
![Ray Teal](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/948/159948615_91c282.jpg)
Ray Teal
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
![William Tannen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/160/160160352_bf4539.jpg)
William Tannen
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Love Crazy (1941)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
![William Phipps](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/333/158333191_2452d4.jpg)
William Phipps
USA
Best movies:
Cinderella (1950)
Lust for Life (1956)
Julius Caesar (1953)
![Don Haggerty](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/873/159873683_fe51d0.jpg)
Don Haggerty
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
![Jimmie Dundee](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/417/160417421_ce919a.jpg)
Jimmie Dundee
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
To Each His Own (1946)
![Gladys Blake](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/996/160996746_296f2e.jpg)
Gladys Blake
USA
Best movies:
To Each His Own (1946)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Eddie Foster
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
The General (1926)
White Heat (1949)
![Tom Powers](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/283/161283042_6a7ac0.jpg)
Tom Powers
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Julius Caesar (1953)
The Tall Target (1951)
![Richard Benedict](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/361/161361465_ee1ae6.jpg)
Richard Benedict
Italy
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
The Window (1949)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Frank McLure
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
G. Pat Collins
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
White Heat (1949)
Jack Shea
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Detective Story (1951)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Sayre Dearing
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
All About Eve (1950)