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El demonio de la noche

Título original: He Walked by Night
  • 1948
  • Approved
  • 1h 19min
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El demonio de la noche (1948)
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
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Film NoirHeistCrimeDramaThriller

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  • Dirección
    • Alfred L. Werker
    • Anthony Mann
  • Guionistas
    • John C. Higgins
    • Crane Wilbur
    • Harry Essex
  • Elenco
    • Richard Basehart
    • Scott Brady
    • Roy Roberts
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • Alfred L. Werker
      • Anthony Mann
    • Guionistas
      • John C. Higgins
      • Crane Wilbur
      • Harry Essex
    • Elenco
      • Richard Basehart
      • Scott Brady
      • Roy Roberts
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    • 63Opiniones de los críticos
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    Richard Basehart
    Richard Basehart
    • Roy Martin…
    Scott Brady
    Scott Brady
    • Police Sgt. Marty Brennan
    Roy Roberts
    Roy Roberts
    • Police Capt. Breen
    Whit Bissell
    Whit Bissell
    • Paul Reeves
    James Cardwell
    James Cardwell
    • Police Sgt. Chuck Jones
    Jack Webb
    Jack Webb
    • Lee Whitey
    Dorothy Adams
    Dorothy Adams
    • Paranoid Housewife
    • (sin créditos)
    Jane Adams
    Jane Adams
    • Nurse Scanion
    • (sin créditos)
    Jack Bailey
    Jack Bailey
    • Witness in Pajamas and Robe
    • (sin créditos)
    Alma Beltran
    Alma Beltran
    • Miss Montalvo
    • (sin créditos)
    Robert Bice
    Robert Bice
    • Detective with Capt. Breen
    • (sin créditos)
    Chief Bradley
    • Chief Bradley
    • (sin créditos)
    Frank Cady
    Frank Cady
    • Pete Hammond
    • (sin créditos)
    Dolores Castelli
    • Witness
    • (sin créditos)
    George Chan
    George Chan
    • Chinese Suspect
    • (sin créditos)
    Garrett Craig
    Garrett Craig
    • Patrolman
    • (sin créditos)
    John Dehner
    John Dehner
    • Assistant Bureau Chief
    • (sin créditos)
    Ann Doran
    Ann Doran
    • Dispatcher
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Alfred L. Werker
      • Anthony Mann
    • Guionistas
      • John C. Higgins
      • Crane Wilbur
      • Harry Essex
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    boris-26

    Fascinating to look at

    HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948) has such a raw, bare-bones feel to it, a real "you are there" aura. A cheerless loner (Cold as an ice bomb Richard Basehart) kills a policeman. The search of the killer begins. This little B-film has so many unforgetable scenes, they drive in one after the other. (The police picking up every vagrant in the city searching for the cop killer, the look on the targeted cop's wife's face when she gets the bad news) My favorite scene is one that does not move the plot along, but creates such an uncomfortable mood. In it, Basehart tries to fish a bullet out of his arm at his sink as his dog yaps and whines in the background.

    Well worth catching.
    Nozz

    Definitely the progenitor of Dragnet

    As related on http://www.adam-12.com/webb.htm ...

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    In 1949, Jack landed the role of Lt. Lee Jones in the film

    "He walked by Night." After meeting LAPD Sgt. Marty Wynn,

    a technical advisor for the show, Jack got the idea to develop

    Dragnet after being invited to review LAPD case files.

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    Several elements associated with _Dragnet_ appear already in _He Walked_: not only the stolid narration but also the devotion of time to routine and even futile work, the interviewing of oddballs, the explication of technology, and the incidental chit-chat about the family.

    One interesting point is that we never get to find out the killer's motive: even at the expense of the audience's aesthetic satisfaction, the killer's point of view is denied to us. The only lessons we can learn from the movie are the lessons that the police learn.
    7derlang

    Not influenced by Carol Reed

    Watching this movie, which is very good if dated, I thought of The Third Man, too. But it was made BEFORE the Carol Reed film, so can hardly be said to have borrowed heavily from it. In fact, I wondered if Reed had been influenced by Werker! The Third Man is an incomparably better film, one of my Desert Island movies. But He Walked By Night was a competent and at times really interesting flick. The scene where the robbery victims collaborate on building the villain's face was excellent.

    Another enjoyable aspect was spotting so many familiar faces. I caught a very brief glimpse of Kenneth Tobey and half a dozen other performers whose faces, if not their names, were very familiar . . . like the nutty lady talking to "milkman" Scott Brady.
    annwynn

    Corrected facts about "He Walked by Night"

    These comments are being submitted by Sgt. Mary Wynn's oldest son, Charles S. Wynn. I do have several additions and corrections regarding your comments about my father. The Walker case was one of several outstanding cases that was investigated by Sgt. Wynn and partners. Over the years, my brother and I would sit and listen to these stories being retold by the officers who worked the case.

    Comment #1 I can never recall him being referred to as "Tough Guy." Comment #2 The movie, "He Walked by Night" was produced by the Eagle Lion Studio. My father was contacted and asked if he would give the technical direction. While doing so, he met a down-and-out actor named Jack Webb. Webb had a ten minute part as a lab technician in the movie and was not depicted as a detective. During one of their conversations, Wynn mentioned to Webb, "It's a shame they don't have a radio show that depicts the actual policeman and the work that he does." At that time, the lead detective show was "Sam Spade."

    They derived the title, "He Walked by Night," to the fact that he committed most of his crimes at night. The film, itself, was not accurate. The use of the storm drains in the City of L. A. was strictly Hollywood. When Walker was captured he was located in a rented bungalow located on Argyle St. in L. A. Three officers, Donohoe, Wynn and Rombo, entered this location at 2:30 A.M. surprising Walker while he slept. A physical confrontation took place. Walker was armed with a machine gun at which time he succeeded in getting the clip into the weapon. Donohoe yelled, "Shoot him, Marty! He's got the gun!" Wynn took him down, striking him numerous times over the head with the butt of his 38 revolver. Walker, still struggling and in possession of the gun, Wynn then put the gun to Walker's back and fired twice. It was noted that when Wynn examined his gun, he had cracked the grip of the pistol. When Walker was placed in the ambulance, he asked Wynn, "Do you have any kids?" Wynn said, "Yes, I have two boys." Walker replied, "You're lucky because you came close to not seeing your kids again." At that time, he told Wynn, "they will never execute for this crime and I will live to see the day where I will kill you." In 1959, Walker succeeded in escaping from Atascadero. Three days later he was captured. Wynn was forced to strap his 38 again after two years of retirement.

    If you desire any more information regard Sgt. Marty Wynn or the film, please contact me at this e-address.
    jimddddd

    The Noir Blueprint For "Dragnet"!

    Based on a true 1946 Hollywood Police Department case, "He Walked By Night" is an early attempt at a "police procedural" film. It has a semi-documentary look combined with many of the conventions of film noir (thanks partly to cinematographer John Alton). Many of the outside scenes were filmed in or around actual locations. Richard Basehart plays a loner who is well-versed in electronic technology, guns, and police procedures. He's able to stay one step ahead of the cops because his paranoia and attention to detail keep him in a constant state of alert. It's also helpful that he listens in with his police-band radio. For a time he confounds the Hollywood cops because he changes his modus operandi. He begins as a break-in artist who steals electronic equipment, but when he kills a suspicious young policeman and loses some of his tools, he turns to armed robbery of liquor stores. Nobody can find him because he travels through Los Angeles in its underground storm drains, where he has hidden stashes of guns and other survival equipment. We also follow the cops as they make use of whatever little information they're able to gather on Basehart's character, and slowly they do close in after several missed opportunities and track the killer into the storm drains, where the play of light and shadow really takes over. One of the cops in "He Walked By Night" is played by Jack Webb, and there's no question he got the inspiration for 'Dragnet" from this film. For starters, "He Walked By Night" begins with a sky pan of Los Angeles and scenes of everyday Hollywood while the narrator gives a kind of "this is the city" speech. The police scenes are often very quotidian (sometimes to the point of being overly detailed), with cops tossing in small talk like "how's the missus? glad to hear it" before they ask other questions. Much of the pacing, attitude and overall feel of "Dragnet," which began as a radio show a year after this film and then moved to TV in 1952, is already here. The final scene in Los Angeles' storm drains ("seven hundred miles of hidden highways," according to the narrator) provides probably this film's most memorable images. Its set-up and execution are remarkably similar to Orson Wells being chased through the sewers of Vienna in Carol Reed's "The Third Man," which was filmed a year later and likely inspired by "He Walked By Night." And who knows, it might also have given a few ideas to the makers of "Them" a couple of years later when they revisited the L.A. storm drains with their giant ants. Ultimately, Basehart's character remains an enigma. We never learn that much about him. "He Walked By Night" isn't a great film, but it's an enjoyable look at postwar police work and primitive forensics.

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    • Trivia
      Technical advisor for the film was Sgt. Marty Wynn of the Los Angeles Police Dept. During the course of shooting, he fell into conversation with Jack Webb, then the star of radio's "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator", who had a small part in the film. Wynn suggested that Webb do a radio series based on actual police files. Thus was born the idea for "Dragnet," which debuted on NBC radio about four months after this film was released.
    • Errores
      When Martin flees from his bungalow into the sewer system, the first shot shows him running with a flashlight and a bag in his hand. This is the same shot as used earlier on in the film after he started robbing liquor stores. (In this later scene, he did not have a bag when he fled the bungalow nor when he entered the sewers.)
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      Narrator: And so the tedious quest went on. Sergeant Brennan wore out his shoes and his patience going from police station to police station, checking photos until his eyes were blurry. For police work is not all glamour and excitement and glory. There are days and days of routine, of tedious probing, of tireless searching. Fruitless days. Days when nothing goes right, when it seems as if no one could ever think his way through the maze of baffling trails a criminal leaves. But the answer to that is persistence and the hope that, sooner or later, something will turn up, some tiny lead that can grow into a warm trail and point to the cracking of a tough case.

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      Edited into Genio del crimen (1955)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 1 de julio de 1949 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idiomas
      • Inglés
      • Español
      • Cantonés
    • También se conoce como
      • He Walked by Night
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • United States Post Office Hollywood Station - 1615 Wilcox Avenue, Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(exterior of post office where Marty questions letter carriers)
    • Productora
      • Bryan Foy Productions
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      1 hora 19 minutos
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      • Black and White
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