Follow Me Quietly

1949
Approved
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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

2049

IHRE BEWERTUNG

William Lundigan and Dorothy Patrick in Follow Me Quietly (1949)

An obsessed cop tracks an elusive serial killer who strangles his victims on rainy nights.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAn obsessed cop tracks an elusive serial killer who strangles his victims on rainy nights.An obsessed cop tracks an elusive serial killer who strangles his victims on rainy nights.An obsessed cop tracks an elusive serial killer who strangles his victims on rainy nights.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

2049

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Dixon
(as Michael Branden)

Douglas Spencer

Phony Judge

Fred Aldrich

Detective at Briefing
(Nicht genannt)

Walden Boyle

Intern
(Nicht genannt)

Paul Bryar

Sgt. Bryce
(Nicht genannt)

Wanda Cantlon

Waitress
(Nicht genannt)

Maurice Cass

Bookstore Owner
(Nicht genannt)

Martin Cichy

Cop
(Nicht genannt)

Art Dupuis

Detective
(Nicht genannt)

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Wissenswertes
Filmed in only sixteen days.

Patzer
When Detective Grant is in the office trying to solve the serial killings; he begins talking to the "Judge" dummy that is sitting on a chair with its back turned to him. After Collins interrupts him and they both leave the office; the dummy comes to life. It turns out that the real killer hid the dummy and took its place sitting on the chair. The puzzling thing is that the film does not explain how the killer manages to enter the Police precinct and the Detective's office without being detected. In addition, why would the killer want to go there and how did the killer in the first place even know the existence of a lookalike dummy. Finally, Detective Grant has been practically living with this dummy so it makes no sense that he couldn't tell even from the back that it was a real human being there. All these factors briefly interrupted the flow of the story.

Zitate
Lt. Harry Grant: Funny thing how he always strikes in the rain.
Sgt. Art Collins: Maybe he likes rain. Must be a fish.

Verbindungen
Featured in Armored Car Robbery (1950)

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Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

When the Killer Is a Real Dummy

"Follow Me Quietly" is an atmospheric noir about a police detective on the hunt for a serial strangler.

The film's most memorable plot device is a dummy that the police department has made based on the limited information they've been able to capture about the killer. They know roughly his height, weight, hair color, the color of his suit, etc., and they construct a mannequin that approximates his appearance. They then wrangle up crooks and bring them into police lineups with the dummy to see if any of them look alike. It's actually pretty humorous and doesn't seem like the makings of crack detective work, but it does allow for some rather creepy scenes, and one in particular, when the police detective has an entire conversation with what he thinks is the mannequin, and which the audience finds out is the actual killer after the detective has left the room.

If you're a fan of rain-soaked streets and movies whose titles have nothing to do with what they're actually about, you'll like this one.

Grade: B+