Shield for Murder (1954)iMDB Rating: 6.8Date Released : 27 August 1954
Genre : Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Stars : Edmond O'Brien, John Agar, Marla English, Emile Meyer
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB
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A vicious cop kills a bookie's runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep to the money to buy a model home for his would-be lounge singer girlfriend.
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Review :
Hard-Boiled Thriller With Nobel Intent
By 1954 Film-Noir was starting to show signs of transforming to a style that had more to do with the sociological and less to do with the psychological. Although the bad cop here definitely has had a psychotic break, the film is concerned more with the external ramifications and less with the internal intent and motivation.
A crisp looking and sometimes brutal Police Story finds that dangling the man's "Castle" in front of him may not always be enough to entice some to play by the rules. It seems that even nine years on the force has not paid enough to comfortably attain the American Dream. Even his lady friend seeks employment as a leggy cigarette girl to pay the bills.
There may be one too many lines reassuring us that this type of cop is really an anomaly, and when we do find one we will tell all and call in the press (yeah right). But aside from this and a preachy reporter (we know he's a righteous man because he smokes a pipe) this is quite a good hard-boiled thriller with noble intent.
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