WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (FOX FILM NOIR)

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• Release Year: 1950
• Genre: Film-Noir; Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femmes fatales and moral conflict.; ; In this hard-hitting mystery drama, Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) is a cop who loathes hoodlums so much that he's demoted for slugging suspects. On a murder case, even though he suspects a hood named Tommy Scalise (Gary Merrill), he loses his temper and kills another suspect. He then falls in love with that man's widow (Gene Tierney), but stands by as her father (Tom Tully) is charged with the murder. Ultimately, Dixon realizes he must find a way to clear the older man without implicating himself.
• Cast: Dana Andrews; Gene Tierney; Gary Merrill; Bert Freed; Tom Tully; Karl Malden; Ruth Donnelly; Craig Stevens; Fred Aldrich; Don Appell; Tony Barr; Eddie Borden; Neville Brand; Barry Brooks; Ralph Brooks; Oleg Cassini; John Close; Tom Coleman; Clancy Cooper; John Daheim; Sayre Dearing; Bob Evans; Charles Flynn; Robert Foulk; Anthony George; Joseph Granby; Chuck Hamilton; Kathleen Hughes; Lou Krugman; Louise Lane; Louise Lorimer; Herbert Lytton; Ian MacDonald; John Marshall; John McGuire; David McMahon; Eda Reiss Merin; Grayce Mills; Lou Nova; Peggy O'Connor; Robert Patten; Gil Perkins; 'Snub' Pollard; Stephen Roberts; Lester Sharpe; Robert F. Simon; Wanda Smith; Bert Stevens; Clarence Straight; Charles Tannen; Shirley Tegge; Larry Thompson; John Trebach; Phil Tully; Harry von Zell; Duke Watson; Chili Williams; Mack Williams; Robert Williams; David Wolfe; Otto Preminger; Ben Hecht; Victor Trivas
• Director: Otto Preminger
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie