He Walked by Night (1948)
With Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Jack Webb, Whit Bissell, Jack Bailey, Reed Hadley, Robert Bice
Directed by Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann
He Walked by Night is a 1948 American police procedural film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker and an uncredited Anthony Mann. The film, shot in a semidocumentary tone, is loosely based on the real-life actions of Erwin "Machine-Gun" Walker, a former Glendale, California police department employee and World War II veteran who unleashed a crime spree of burglaries, robberies and shootouts in the Los Angeles area between 1945 and 1946.
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