A detective's dilemma. A murder investigation is compromised by the detective's compromised position in love.A detective's dilemma. A murder investigation is compromised by the detective's compromised position in love.A detective's dilemma. A murder investigation is compromised by the detective's compromised position in love.
- Doc Cochrane
- (as Robert Stevens)
- Boy
- (uncredited)
- Tusco
- (uncredited)
- Dickstein
- (uncredited)
- Doc Cochrane as a Boy
- (uncredited)
- District Attorney Bill Halloran
- (uncredited)
- Fat Man in Library
- (uncredited)
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
- Benjamin Merrill
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThe car the murderer uses is a rare 1933 Packard Standard Eight Coupe Roadster. In excellent condition in 2020 this car could sell for well over $100,000.
- GoofsAlthough the majority of the movie is a prolonged flashback set in the early 1930s, absolutely everything (with the exception of a few vintage cars) - hairstyles, wardrobe, music and decor, is strictly contemporary 1946, without the slightest attempt at accuracy.
- Quotes
Jill Merrill: I don't need you, I can buy and sell you.I don't know why I bother seeing you.
Tony Cochrane: You don't know why? I'll tell you. You're rotten rich through and through.Like something they serve at the Ritz,only its been laying out in the sun too long.
Jill Merrill: That's right, Tony, you're not my kind. The clean cut type.Little tootsie-wootsie loves her great big stupid peasant.
Tony Cochrane: Yeah, for all your dough, like a ton of bricks!
Jill Merrill: How picturesque. And you were totally unresponsive?
Tony Cochrane: You're like a sickness. I was sick!
Jill Merrill: No, Tony it was a fever!
Tony Cochrane: Its a nightmare! With convulsions!
- ConnectionsSpin-off Night Editor (1954)
In flashback, the editor tells the tale of police lieutenant Tony Cochrane (William Gargan), a family man who cheats on his wife with socialite femme fatale Jill Merrill (Janis Carter). Cochrane and the woman, who is also cheating on her husband, witness a man bludgeoning his girlfriend to death with a tire iron while the couple is parked at "lovers lane" by the beach.
The two can't report the crime without revealing their cheating, a dilemma which eventually leads to bigger troubles. Meanwhile, Cochrane must investigate the killing but is not able to tell anyone he witnessed the crime.
This movie was supposed to be the first in a series of Night Editor movies, but it's the only one that was ever made.
It's definitely Film Noir (I've been watching quite a few so called Film Noir movies and many just aren't. This is a fairy good example of the genre, although it sure is "talkie." I would have preferred some more action.
A lot more action. On the plus side, it's a really short film. I guess it was part of a two feature showing.
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- Sep 13, 2019
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- Also known as
- The Trespasser
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- Runtime1 hour 8 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1