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He walked by night

An LAPD sergeant (Brady) follows the trail of a devious cop-killer (Basehart).

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  • "Il marchait la nuit"
  • "L.A. investigator"@en

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  • "The police pursue a cop-killer n Los Angeles, told in semi-documentary style."
  • "An LAPD sergeant (Brady) follows the trail of a devious cop-killer (Basehart)."@en
  • "An LAPD sergeant (Brady) follows the trail of a devious cop-killer (Basehart)."
  • "In this exciting crime melodrama, police are in pursuit of an elusive, shrewd murderer played by Richard Basehart. With first-rate performances from the entire cast and with the documentary style in which it was written, this film tells an intriquing story full of mystery and suspense."
  • "Drama of a psychotic but brilliant killer being hunted by police in L.A., told in semi-documentary style."
  • "A story about a diabolical killer done in documentary style."@en
  • "Drama of a psychotic but brilliant killer who is being hunted by the Los Angeles police. This is a near definitive meeting of film policier and film noir. The voice-over narration announces a true story with 'only the names changed.' A quasi-documentary detailing of police work is embellished by Alton's peerless images of the nocturnal city. The psychopathic loner at the centre of the drama is the epitome of a noir protagonist."@en
  • "The LA police department frantically searches for a cold-blooded cop killer on the loose in Los Angeles."@en
  • "The LA police department frantically searches for a cold-blooded cop killer on the loose in Los Angeles."
  • "A burglar turned cop killer is pursued through Los Angeles ending in the city's sewer system. Filmed in a pseudo-documentary style."
  • ""At one o'clock on a June night in Los Angeles, Officer Robert Rollins of the Hollywood Police Division is shot by a young man who was attempting to rob a radio shop. Before he lapses into a coma, Robert crashes his car into the killer's car, and when the police arrive on the scene, they discover an arsenal of war navy equipment in the trunk. After Robert dies, his friends, Sergeants Marty Brennan and Chuck Jones, take on the case under police captain Breen. Meanwhile, the killer, Davis Morgan, has been selling stolen electronics equipment that he has rebuilt to an honest electronics store owner named Paul Reeves. One day following the murder, Morgan gives Reeves a television projector to rent, and a customer named Dunning recognizes it as a projector he built and calls the police. Later when Morgan returns to the store, Chuck and Marty are waiting to arrest him. Morgan is armed, however, and shoots Chuck, paralyzing him, then is himself shot as he escapes. At his courtyard apartment in Hollywood, Morgan removes the bullet. Later, wearing various disguises, Morgan perpetrates a string of liquor store robberies, which end in his disappearance in the city's 700 miles of storm drains. Lee, a Hollywood Division forensics officer, reports to Breen that the bullet casings from the liquor store heists match those of the Rollins and Jones shootings. Breen then meets with the robbery victims and builds a composite of the thief's face, which Reeves confirms is Davis Morgan. A nationwide circulation of Morgan's picture proves that he is virtually unknown in the crime world. After Morgan visits Reeves at his home to get money, the police become convinced that Morgan is still in Los Angeles. Frustrated by the case, Marty takes two weeks off, during which time he visits Chuck, who tells him his theory that Morgan is a policeman. A search of area police stations reveals that years earlier, Morgan worked as a radio technician for a Los Angeles division. After a Hollywood postal worker recognizes Morgan from his route at the Bellevue courtyard apartments, Breen and Marty catch him at home. Morgan escapes into the sewers, where he is eventually hunted down and shot. ... Hollywood reporter ... stated that the film, which had a 'semi-documentary' style, was based on the murder of a Pasadena policeman by a youth who worked in the police's fingerprinting department"--AFI catalog, 1941-1950."@en
  • "Film noir semi-documentary style treatment based on an actual Los Angeles Police Department case. A cop killer manages to elude detection by intercepting police radio calls and by altering his appearance. Evidence points to an alienated electronics expert."@en
  • "Based on one of the most notorious, unsolved cases in Los Angeles' police history, [this film features] an intelligent and cunning criminal who kills a cop, steals electronic equipment and robs liquor stores without leaving a clue. The police department persists in their [sic] search for him, systematically using the latest scientific methods of detection. The culprit is finally identified, leading to a frenetic pursuit through the massive drainage system beneath the streets of L.A.--Container."
  • "A story of a cold-blooded cop killer and the policemen who pursue him, related in semi-documentary style."@en
  • "This is a near definitive meeting of film policier and film noir. The voice-over narration announces a true story with 'only the names changed.' A quasi-documentary detailing of police work is embellished by Alton's peerless images of the nocturnal city. The psychopathic loner at the centre of the drama is the epitome of a noir protagonist."@en
  • "The police pursue a cop-killer in Los Angeles, told in semi-documentary style."@en
  • "The police pursue a cop-killer in Los Angeles, told in semi-documentary style."
  • "Semi-documentary chase drama showing how the Los Angeles police department frantically searches for a cold blooded killer on the loose in Los Angeles."@en
  • "A crime melodrama in which police are in pursuit of an elusive, shrewd murderer."
  • "A crime melodrama in which police are in pursuit of an elusive, shrewd murderer."@en
  • "He walked by night: Film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop. The man on the Eiffel Tower: In Paris, poor medical student Johann Radek is paid by Bill Kirby to murder his wealthy aunt. When a simple knife grinder is wrongly accused, Radek taunts the police until they realize that he is the killer."
  • "An ingenious burglar turned cop killer evades an intense California manhunt. This film was the inspiration for the original Dragnet."@en
  • ""Ray Morgan, un cambrioleur réputé, s'est trouvé dans l'obligation de tuer un officier de police. Pour les autorités, une chasse à l'homme a commencé. "--[allocine.fr]."
  • "The Los Angeles police department frantically searches for a cold blooded killer on the loose in Los Angeles."
  • "Based upon one of the most notorious unsolved cases in L.A. police history, this film noir piece told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a young ruthless hoodlum who shot and killed a cop."

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  • "fiction policière (fiction)"
  • "Police films"@en
  • "Police films"
  • "Police films and programs"@en
  • "Suspense films"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Detective and mystery films"@en
  • "Film noir"
  • "Film noir"@en
  • "Features"@en
  • "Crime films"
  • "Mystery films"
  • "Thrillers (Motion pictures)"@en
  • "Thrillers (Motion pictures)"
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en

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  • "He walked by night"
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  • "He Walked by Night (Film)"
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