A detective covers up a killing. His own brother starts putting the pieces together.
1950 · Film noir · Crime drama · 81 minutes (restored version) · Black and white
Synopsis
San Francisco homicide lieutenant Ed Cullen helps his lover Lois Frazer cover up a fatal shooting. Then his younger brother Andy, a rookie detective eager to prove himself, joins the investigation. As Andy follows the evidence, Ed has to keep working beside the man most likely to expose him.
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Film credits
Director · Felix E. Feist
Screenplay · Philip MacDonald and Seton I. Miller
Producer · Jack M. Warner
Cinematography · Russell Harlan
Production company · Phoenix Films
Distributor · Twentieth Century-Fox
Production and film notes
The film went into production under the title The Gun. It was the first independent feature from Jack M. Warner’s Phoenix Films. The crew shot scenes in San Francisco and in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles. AFI Catalog
Look out for Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Russell Harlan’s photography makes the fort’s brick passageways part of the suspense. The Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive restored the film. AFI Silver Theatre
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