{"id":13683,"date":"2020-09-01T22:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T02:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13683"},"modified":"2020-09-01T22:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T02:45:48","slug":"where-the-sidewalk-ends-1950-otto-preminger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13683","title":{"rendered":"Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950, Otto Preminger)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oops I’d been trying to avoid police brutality movies, then put this on without knowing what it’s about. Got what I deserved with the icky ending, a beaten wife pledging to wait for her new man, a crooked violent cop heading to jail for killing a man and framing her dad.<\/p>\n

Cool trick shot, the two cops are the same guy:<\/em>
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Dana “Night of the Demon<\/a><\/em>” Andrews is bad cop Dixon, busted down a rank by bignose lieutenant Karl Malden, determined to prove himself by busting chill sniffy gambler Gary Merrill (All About Eve<\/a><\/em> the same year). While shaking down one of Gary’s players for info, Dana knocks the guy’s block off then spends the rest of the movie covering up his crime. Besides the trick shot above (seriously, I was glad for once that the characters begin every other line by saying each other’s name, since they all kinda look the same) there’s a neat bit where time passes via light-play on a miniature(?) of the city. The Girl is The Ghost and Mrs. Muir<\/a><\/em> star Gene Tierney, separated wife of the newly-dead guy, who falls for her husband’s killer even as her sweetie dad Tom Tully is being held for the murder.<\/p>\n

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