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He Walked by Night (US)
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
1949-02-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/31556
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One of the posters for He Walked By Night, a film noir that was "ripped from the headlines." It was based on the case of Erwin "Machine-Gun" Walker, a former Glendale, CA police dispatcher who went on a crime spree in 1945-1946. #HeWalkedByNight #NoirVember #FilmNoir