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Vice Squad

  • 1953
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  • 1h 28min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.7/10
1.1 k
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Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens, and Adam Williams in Vice Squad (1953)
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Un capitán de policía investiga el tiroteo de un oficial durante un arresto. Mientras busca a los responsables, descubre un plan para robar un banco. Con métodos cuestionables obtiene inform... Leer todoUn capitán de policía investiga el tiroteo de un oficial durante un arresto. Mientras busca a los responsables, descubre un plan para robar un banco. Con métodos cuestionables obtiene información y resuelve otros casos simultáneamente.Un capitán de policía investiga el tiroteo de un oficial durante un arresto. Mientras busca a los responsables, descubre un plan para robar un banco. Con métodos cuestionables obtiene información y resuelve otros casos simultáneamente.

  • Dirección
    • Arnold Laven
  • Guionistas
    • Lawrence Roman
    • Leslie T. White
  • Elenco
    • Edward G. Robinson
    • Paulette Goddard
    • K.T. Stevens
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.7/10
    1.1 k
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    • Dirección
      • Arnold Laven
    • Guionistas
      • Lawrence Roman
      • Leslie T. White
    • Elenco
      • Edward G. Robinson
      • Paulette Goddard
      • K.T. Stevens
    • 35Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 14Opiniones de los críticos
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    Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson
    • Capt. 'Barnie' Barnaby
    Paulette Goddard
    Paulette Goddard
    • Mona Ross
    K.T. Stevens
    K.T. Stevens
    • Ginny
    Porter Hall
    Porter Hall
    • Jack Hartrampf
    Adam Williams
    Adam Williams
    • Marty Kusalich
    Edward Binns
    Edward Binns
    • Al Barkis
    Barry Kelley
    Barry Kelley
    • Dwight Foreman
    Jay Adler
    Jay Adler
    • Frankie Pierce
    Mary Ellen Kay
    Mary Ellen Kay
    • Carol Lawson
    Joan Vohs
    Joan Vohs
    • Vickie Webb
    Lee Van Cleef
    Lee Van Cleef
    • Pete Monte
    Harlan Warde
    Harlan Warde
    • Det. Lacey
    Dan Riss
    Dan Riss
    • Lt. Bob Imlay
    Lewis Martin
    Lewis Martin
    • Police Lt. Ed Chisolm
    Murray Alper
    Murray Alper
    • Cop
    • (sin créditos)
    William Boyett
    William Boyett
    • Officer Kellogg
    • (sin créditos)
    Leonard Bremen
    Leonard Bremen
    • Fred
    • (sin créditos)
    Paul Bryar
    Paul Bryar
    • Lt. Cade
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Arnold Laven
    • Guionistas
      • Lawrence Roman
      • Leslie T. White
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    7planktonrules

    Nothing extraordinary, but everything falls together very well

    While this isn't a great Edward G. Robinson film, it is a very good one and a rather realistic view of police work--complete with a 1950s-style ignorance of the Bill of Rights! Like the movie DRAGNET, police harassment and ignoring of some basic rights are okay provided it results in a conviction! But, unlike DRAGNET, this film isn't nearly as dark in tone nor are there any of the wonderful Jack Webb comments, such as "the first shot tore him in half,...the second one made him a crowd". Instead, Robinson plays a police captain that is quieter and less "Noir" but nonetheless still pretty sneaky in order to catch a cop killer and foil a bank robbery. Because the film tends to be more realistic than many cop dramas and avoids the trademark camera-work and snappy dialog of Noir, it is more a police film than an example of Film Noir. Still, it's awfully good and watchable--with good writing and pacing. Not great, but you could do a lot worse!
    6Doylenf

    Edw. G. Robinson in low-budget but tightly knit tale...

    EDWARD G. ROBINSON viewed this period in the early '50s as his B-film era, but VICE SQUAD is an efficient, if low-budget product that gives him a chance to show his stuff in a story about the day to day activities of a police precinct in '50s L.A. PAULETTE GODDARD gets top female billing in what is essentially a cameo role as her career was obviously in decline at this point. She's sassy and brittle as the head of an escort club who agrees to cooperate with Robinson's police investigation.

    Robinson is seen adroitly handling a number of sticky situations, including the death of a policeman and the reluctance of a witness to talk; the discovery that a bank heist is about to take place; and the effect of the cop killing on a gang of car thieves. It's interesting to catch an early glimpse of LEE VAN CLEEF as one of the car thieves.

    There's a film noir look to Joseph Biroc's first rate B&W photography with excellent use of light and shadows and it's directed in brisk style by Arnold Laven. All of the intertwined stories are smoothly coordinated but the tension doesn't start building until about forty-five minutes into the bank heist sequence.

    Actually the police tactics shown are pretty underhanded, so it's not exactly a flattering portrait of police procedures--but they do seem credible.

    Packs just as much suspense as another crime melodrama with a New York locale--THE NAKED CITY. The shots of L.A. in the early '50s establish atmosphere from the start. Well worth viewing.
    ChanRobt

    Great period piece. Only one star, lots of characters.

    If you're old enough to remember L.A. in the early fifties, this is particularly fun. Lot's of location stuff, downtown, Long Beach or San Pedro. And the bank robbery takes place in Beverly Hills on Camden or Roxbury Drive, just below Little Santa Monica Blvd. Edgar G. Robinson is great as always. It's a cousin to Noir, lots of great faces and character acting. They couldn't afford a lot of sets, or any star beyond E.G.R., which is part of the charm of the movie. And if you like Detroit when it still had character, you'll love the great early fifties cars.
    7melvelvit-1

    A "good cop/bad cop" counterpoint to THE BIG HEAT

    Arnold Laven's VICE SQUAD is a 1953 "police procedural" B that follows LA police chief Edward G. Robinson around for a day and he sees it all: a patrolman shot, a marriage bunco, pickpockets, an "escort service", a bank heist, police snitches, and other flotsam and jetsam with some harmless insanity and adultery thrown in for good measure. It's all in a day's work for the chief, a no-nonsense man with a kind side (reminiscent of Robinson's "Asa Keyes" only less verbose) who gives everything from misdemeanors to murder raps the attention they merit and even manages to squeeze in an appearance on a TV talk show (cut short, of course, when he finds out the cop died). He's got time for everyone and always gets his man but the methods the police use would cause rioting in the streets today. Oh well, the ends justify the means and it's all for a good cause at the end of this day.

    Actors like Eddie G., Barbara Stanwyck, and a host of others always did their professional best in these kinds of '50s B's which makes them a pleasure to watch even if the movies themselves aren't so hot. This one's not bad with the LA locations and unsung character actors (milquetoast Porter Hall, sinister Lee Van Cleef, sweaty Adam Williams, and an uncredited Percy Helton) all helping to raise it a notch above the routine. The billed-above-the-title co-star Paulette Goddard didn't hurt, either, and makes the most of her brief scenes. She's a sassy "escort operator" in sunglasses and mink that was probably based on "Hollywood Madam" Brenda Allen, in the news at the time for testifying before a Senate subcommittee hearing on police corruption in LA. Those hearings became the basis for William McGiver's THE BIG HEAT, which was made the same year and, in fact, VICE SQUAD seems like a "good cop/bad cop" counterpoint to Fritz Lang's brutal noir.
    dougdoepke

    Thick-Ear at its Most Watchable

    A cop-killer main plot is woven into a typical day in a police captain's LA precinct.

    I really like seeing Barry Kelley's shyster lawyer get the run-around, getting all huffy and dyspeptic while the cops squeeze his client (Hall). Kelley was so good at smug, high- powered lawyer types that it's fun seeing him flustered for a change. The movie's almost a rogue's gallery of shady characters from the 50's, including that great little gnome Percy Helton whose deluded character apparently has "tv images" following him around! I'm just sorry we don't see more of the coquettish Goddard and her "escort" service (now what was that phone number again?).

    Nothing exceptional here, just a really well-paced look at a police precinct in action. So look quickly because the characters-- excepting Robinson's police captain-- move in and out briskly, as do the many LA-area locations, circa 1953. At the same time, many of the cameo characters are well- etched. Note, for example, how the mortuary's secretary tries to pull a "bait and switch" on a customer, using an advertised $650 service as bait and then switching to a much more expensive one. That's the sort of incidental touch that really adds color, especially to a B- movie like this.

    Speaking of touches, note the questionable tactics the cops use in chasing down the killers. Getting wimpy undertaker Hall to lie about his eye-witness identification is perhaps the most legally questionable, but not the only one. There's a clear effort at portraying police methods more realistically than usual, especially for the politically chilled 1950's. Anyway, in my little book, this is Hollywood thick ear at its slickest and most watchable.

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    • Trivia
      First film produced by the newly formed Sequoia Productions.
    • Errores
      When Mona is in Barnaby's office smoking a cigarette, the orientation of how she positions the hand holding it changes from cut to cut.
    • Citas

      [Two people can be seen in an apartment. One of them is a man named Jack Hartrampf. The other is a woman named Vickie Webb. As some music plays, Vickie looks outside the door for a few seconds. After that, she closes the door starts to approach Jack]

      Vickie Webb: All clear.

      Jack Hartrampf: Are you sure?

      Vickie Webb: I'm sure, I didn't see nobody.

      Jack Hartrampf: I'd better go now, Vickie.

      Vickie Webb: Will you call me?

      Jack Hartrampf: First chance I can.

      [the two of them share a quick embrace before Jack heads to the door. He opens it, and after looking around for a few seconds, closes the door and begins to descend the stairs]

    • Conexiones
      Remade as Lux Video Theatre: Vice Squad (1957)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 31 de julio de 1953 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Sitios oficiales
      • Streaming on "classictbone" YouTube Channel
      • Streaming on "Full Moon Matinee" YouTube Channel
    • Idiomas
      • Inglés
      • Italiano
    • También se conoce como
      • Girl in Room 13
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • N Bedford Drive & S Santa Monica Blvd Beverly Hills, California, Estados Unidos(Al Barkis smoking under the street clock)
    • Productoras
      • Gramercy Pictures (II)
      • Sequoia Pictures
      • Sol Lesser Productions
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 28 minutos
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.37 : 1

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