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The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!
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.
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Nov 14, 2022 · via TMDB
Cornel Wilde is quite good as the detective charged with investigating a local crime boss (Richard Conte) who thus far has proved a bit Teflon. After a few years of this relentless pursuit, he has managed to fall for the hoodlum's lady (Susan Wallace) and his captain deduces that he has become too close to remain objective and so the case is to be stopped. That all changes when Conte's thugs accidentally kill the woman (instead of him) and it all becomes truly personal! It's a well directed, pacy and, at times, suspenseful crime drama from the pen of Philip Yordan that could perhaps have been just ten minutes shorter to tighten it up.
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Cornel Wilde
Leonard Diamond
Jean Wallace
Susan Lowell
Brian Donlevy
Joe McClure
Richard Conte
Mr. Brown
Lee Van Cleef
Fante
Earl Holliman
Mingo
Robert Middleton
Police Capt. Peterson
Helen Walker
Alicia Brown
Jay Adler
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John Hoyt
Nils Dreyer
Ted de Corsia
Ralph Bettini
Helene Stanton
Rita
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Rita Gould
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Michael Mark
Fred (hotel clerk)
Steve Mitchell
Bennie Smith, Boxer
John Alton
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Don Loper
Costume Design
Joseph H. Lewis
Director
Walter Mirisch
Executive Producer
David Raksin
Music
Philip Yordan
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