No, it's not a dramatization of Shel Silverstein's poem collection (though that's a great idea!), but rather a highly-rated noir from the early '50s starring Dana Andrews (a guy Dana), Gene Tierney (a girl Gene), and Karl Malden (a broken-nose Karl). One of the reasons I watched this particular noir is the lead pair of actors. One of my favorite old movies is Laura, which happens to star both Tierney and Andrews, and I was immediately hooked.
The premise is simple, but neat: Andrews plays a cop with an attitude who is warned about "roughing up the hoods" (Andrews makes this word rhyme with "dudes" often) and this dangerous precedent follows him into an "interrogation" of a man he thinks is guilty of a crime. Unfortunately for him, he ends up killing this innocent man in his apartment and has to clean it up.
Of course, he fallsin love with the dead man's separated wife, whose father gets framed for killing the man. Oh, what to do, what to do? And, there's another unsolved murder going on in the background that our valiant protagonist/antagonist is actively trying to solve.
Score: 7.5/10
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