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Honest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane.Honest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane.Honest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane.
Walter Bacon
- Caleb
- (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Peter Brocco
- Bank Heist Man
- (uncredited)
Barry Brooks
- Policeman at Brissard's
- (uncredited)
John Butler
- Hotel Clerk
- (uncredited)
Ben Cameron
- Hood
- (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan
- Thompson
- (uncredited)
Jean Dean
- Airline Hostess
- (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
- Elevator Passenger
- (uncredited)
Tom Ferrandini
- Bus Passenger
- (uncredited)
George Ford
- Plane Passenger
- (uncredited)
Joseph Forte
- Brissard
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of the first films to be shot in the Los Angeles River.
- GoofsIn a scene where Miller and Egan are in a chase car the background footage includes vehicles from earlier decades, obviously older stock footage.
- Quotes
Diane: Someday you're going to want something nice and expensive that you can't afford on a detective's salary.
Joe Peters: Like what?
Diane: Like me.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits seem to be an early attempt at creative credits where the credits try to fit the blacktop of the road we're "traveling" on.
- ConnectionsEdited from High Sierra (1940)
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Nice to see McGraw in LOVE!
I love this movie. I almost fell out of my chair the first time I saw it, 15 years ago on AMC. I could not believe McGraw was actually given a role like this. So often we see him as the heavy with a gun, not a woman, and we certainly never see him in love. He displays the right amount of angst and regret in this movie. The movie,though not great,is an example of what McGraw could do when given the right material and good direction. Too bad he was not given more roles like this. I have always felt that if McGraw had been with another studio, i.e.Warner Bros. which specialized in turning tough guys into leading men e.g. Cagney, Bogart,Raft, he would have had a better chance at becoming a leading man like the aforementioned actors,if not a more recognizable presence in movies. He certainly COULD have had more LEAD roles in "A" movies. Anyway, the movie is predictable in that you know Peters is not going to get away with the money. What is surprising or interesting is that the movie doesn't explain how Joe and Diane end up together. In one scene she is telling him he does not make enough money and a FEW scenes later she is smashing glasses in disgust and then professing her love for Joe. The ending is typical of movies of this sort. But it is an interesting movie in that we get to see "MAC" demonstrate feelings, probably for the first time in his career-no doubt due to his being typecast. Joan Dixon is okay as the female lead but I don't think she was the best choice. I guess she was given the role because Howard Hughes was "interested" in her career and was trying to mold her into another Jane Russell. Milburn Stone, Louis Jean Haydt (excellent character actor), and Lowell Gilmore (wonderful in "The Picture of Dorian Gray") are on the mark in their respective roles. Peter Brocco, the criminal at the beginning of the movie, is used to good effect here. (He and McGraw worked together in the "Narrow Margin" and "Spartucus". In fact,you can see the two talking in the latter during a gladiator film sequence; McGraw's "Marcellus" is stooped down talking to Brocco's character when he rises to watch the gladiators train). Mercedyz
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- charlesstewart1
- Oct 17, 2006
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Walk a Crooked Mile
- Filming locations
- W. Riverside Drive and Fernleaf Street, Los Angeles, California, USA(Where Joe almost hits another car going through a stop sign and turning left onto W. Riverside Dr.)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
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- Budget
- $200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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