Dragnet (1947 film)
| Dragnet | |
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| Directed by | Leslie Goodwins |
| Produced by |
Maurice Conn David Permut |
| Written by |
Harry Essex Barbara Worth |
| Starring |
Henry Wilcoxon Mary Brian Douglass Dumbrille Virginia Dale Don C. Harvey and Ralph Dunn |
| Music by | Irving Gertz |
| Cinematography | James S. Brown Jr. |
| Edited by |
William D. Gordeon Richard Halsey |
| Distributed by | Astor Pictures |
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71 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Dragnet is a 1947 American crime film directed by Leslie Goodwins and starring Henry Wilcoxon, Mary Brian, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Dale, Don C. Harvey, and Ralph Dunn. The screenplay was written by Barbara Worth and Harry Essex. The original music score was composed by Irving Gertz. It is also known as Dark Bullet and A Shot in the Dark.
A dead John Doe is found on the beach and Detective Lieutenant Tony Ricco gets the case to solve. However, there are no clues whatsoever to the dead man's identity and Tony is all out of options to bring the investigation any closer to a finish. An old friend of his from Scotland Yard in London, Geoffrey James, comes to visit him, and Tony asks for some input on the case.
After examining the body and the man's clothes, Geoffrey concludes he wore a Harris Tweed coat and had Sterling pound notes on him, and therefore has to be of English origin. Geoffrey also discovers a fluorescent paint on the coat, which would suggest it is the same paint as the one used to mark floating objects in water to easier spot and rescue them.
Since the dead man had no water in his lungs he hasn't drowned,but maybe got the paint on him picking something up from the water, for example a life jacket.
Geoffrey goes to the site on the beach where the body was found and discovers a life jacket as suggested, in a beachcomber shack. He puts it on over his own coat but then he is suddenly attacked by the beachcomber. A strange woman also appears with the beachcomber. Geoffrey easily fends off the attack and left is he and the strange woman, who doesn't want to reveal her name to him. Instead she runs away from him.
Geoffrey runs after the woman but is knocked down by her friend. When he wakes up again, the life jacket is gone. Geoffrey changes tactics and looks into all the flights over the Atlantic ocean in the last few days, and eventually finds one where the bathroom window had been broken during the flight. He gets a beautiful flight attendant, Anne Hogan, to identify John Doe at the morgue as a Mr. Rodine, who worked as a diplomat and could pass through customs unchecked.
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