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Boomerang (1947 film)

Boomerang!
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Elia Kazan
Produced by Louis De Rochemont
Screenplay by Richard Murphy
Story by Fulton Oursler
Based on The Perfect Case
1945 article in
The Reader's Digest
by Anthony Abbot
Starring Dana Andrews
Jane Wyatt
Lee J. Cobb
Narrated by Reed Hadley
Music by David Buttolph
Cinematography Norbert Brodine
Edited by Harmon Jones
Production
company
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
Release date
  • March 5, 1947 (1947-03-05) (United States)
Running time
88 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1.14 million
Box office $2.25 million (rentals)

Boomerang! is a 1947 American crime film noir based on the true story of a vagrant who was accused of murder, only to be found not guilty through the efforts of the prosecutor. It stars Dana Andrews, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Arthur Kennedy and Jane Wyatt.

The film was directed by Elia Kazan, based on a story (written by Fulton Oursler, credited as "Anthony Abbot") in Reader's Digest and was shot largely in Stamford, Connecticut after Kazan was denied permission to film in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the actual events occurred. This semidocumentary also contains voice-overs by Reed Hadley. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.

Father Lambert (Wyrley Birch), a priest, is shot dead on a Bridgeport, Connecticut street at night. The police, led by Chief Robinson (Lee J. Cobb), fail to immediately find the murderer. It soon becomes a political hot potato, with the police accused of incompetence, and the city's reform-minded administration comes under attack. Robinson and the prosecutor Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) come under severe pressure by political leaders to find the killer or bring in outside help.

After strenuous efforts yield nothing, a vagrant ex-serviceman, John Waldron (Arthur Kennedy), is apprehended and identified in a lineup. He is interrogated for two days by police until, deprived of sleep, he confesses. The evidence seems solid, and a gun in his possession is believed to be the gun that was used in the shooting.


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