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Originally Posted by Mstimc
The 1950's version of Dragent was very noirish. It seems like it was a continuation of the style you see in 1948's "He Walks by Night", in which Richard Basehart plays a psycho killer who uses LA's flood control system to escape crime scenes. It was very much a police procedural drama, complete with explanatory voice-over narrative, much as Webb did in both versions of Dragnet. A young Jack Webb plays a police forensic specialist in the move. BTW, many of the repertoire actors from the 1967-70 version appear in the original 50's series, too.
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Interesting info. Thanks. I started watching the film, will watch it all. The opening "This is Los Angeles...etc." does indeed seem like a prototype Dragnet intro. Maybe Webb who is in the film got his Dragnet series idea from this film. Thanks again...back to watching film.