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Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.
Tom Poston
- Detective
- (as Thomas Poston)
Roy Barcroft
- Mechanical Man Attraction Hawker
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Helen Gibson
- Woman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFirst credited feature film for actor-comedian Tom Poston.
- GoofsStuntman Dale Van Sickel is clearly seen instead of actor William Talman in the shot where Hayes Stewart jumps over the skylight during the rooftop chase.
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Sally 'Angel Face' Connors: When I first came to this town I was gonna be - oh, there were a lot of things I was gonna do. Become famous. But Chicago's the big melting pot, and I got melted, but good.
- Crazy creditsThis motion picture is respectfully dedicated to the police and police departments of America - a brave army of men and women who form our first line of defense in preserving our sacred principles of personal liberty and justice. We gratefully acknowledge the valuable assistance given by the City of Chicago and its police and Police Department, whose cooperation made this picture possible.
- ConnectionsReferenced in An Inn at Osaka (1954)
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Superior B noir film
This film set in Chicago in 1952 starts ponderously with a voice-over of 'the voice of the city', strangely that of actor Chill Wills (whose voice is more that of a cowpoke or a ranch hand, thus highly unsuitable for this purpose), who then appears in the crime story as a ghostly police sergeant representing the spirit of the city. Really, we could have done without those affectations, and Wills's acting attempts to be mysterious are worse. However, setting all that aside, the rest of the film is a pretty straightforward crime drama which is very good. Gig Young plays a disillusioned policeman vacillating between leaving and staying with his wife and quitting and keeping his job. One wants to kick him so that he stops dithering, but the story requires him to be like that. There are some strong performances: Mala Powers is good as a wild love interest of Young's, Edward Arnold is suave and persuasive as a bent criminal lawyer, Marie Windsor as usual is svelte and corrupt, and William Talman is very effective as a bonkers criminal who wants to shoot everybody, and nearly does. It's all good entertainment, if you look the other way when the pontificating is going on. One needs to take it with a pinch of paprika (the director, John Auer, was Hungarian).
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was City That Never Sleeps (1953) officially released in India in English?
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