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After being fired for insubordination, homicide detective Mike Carter is hired as bodyguard by the owner of a local meat-packing plant where a meat inspector has been murdered.After being fired for insubordination, homicide detective Mike Carter is hired as bodyguard by the owner of a local meat-packing plant where a meat inspector has been murdered.After being fired for insubordination, homicide detective Mike Carter is hired as bodyguard by the owner of a local meat-packing plant where a meat inspector has been murdered.
Erville Alderson
- Adam Stone
- (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
- Little Man in Street
- (uncredited)
Charles Bedell
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Claire Carleton
- Zinnia
- (uncredited)
Russ Clark
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Marcelle Corday
- Madalena
- (uncredited)
David Cota
- Pachuco
- (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
- Detective Sgt. Burch
- (uncredited)
Ray Dolciame
- Frankie
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaFinal film of Priscilla Lane.
- GoofsAfter Mike quits the force, he and Doris attend a baseball game which is tied in the bottom of the 9th inning, with two outs against the home team. The first pitch shown is a strike that the batter swings at and misses while a player on first base steals second base. The second pitch shown becomes a double into left field, scoring the runner from second base. At this point, the game should be over since the home team broke the tie in the bottom of the 9th. Nevertheless, the game is shown as continuing with the first batter now on second base. The next pitch shown becomes a single into right field, scoring the player who was on second. The home team now has scored twice in the bottom of 9th, yet the game continues further, with the next batter hitting a grounder to the shortstop, who gets a force-out at second. Finally, the game is over and Mike and Doris seem suddenly upset that their team (the visitors) have lost on that last out when in fact the game was lost two batters earlier. Even worse, a last shot of the scoreboard shows only one run for the bottom of the 9th instead of two.
- Quotes
Mike Carter: I keep the meat warm.
- ConnectionsReferences Gone with the Wind (1939)
Featured review
Lawrence Tierney as a Good Guy
This film is not about bodyguards. It is based on a story co-authored by the 23 year-old Robert Altman, his first screen credit. Dick Fleischer, just getting into his stride, here directs his first noir thriller, which was followed the next year by his brilliant 'The Clay Pigeon'. This film is not brilliant, but it is good, and would have been better if many minutes had not been cut out of it. Lawrence Tierney (no relation to Gene Tierney), who for years was a reliable tough guy, here plays a sympathetic cop who wants to get rough with the bad guys and is thrown off the Force, briefly taking on a bodyguard role (though that is just incidental), and becomes enmired in a frame-up and plenty of trouble. His doting girl friend is played charmingly by Priscilla Lane, in her last film before retiring from the screen at the age of 33. Tierney has a knockabout charm of his own, and grim-faced though he tends to be, can be grimly determined to nail the baddies and not only grimly determined to be wicked, as he was in other movies. There is a lot of harrowing business in a meat-packing plant, with dangerous saws and hooks on all sides, people getting killed by them, etc. So the menace is not spared. This is a solid if light-weight B thriller.
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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