On Dangerous Ground

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On Dangerous Ground (1951)

NR 12/13/1951 (US) Drama, Crime 1h 22m

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In One Strange Night she met both LOVE... and MURDER!

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A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

Nicholas Ray

Director
Gerald Butler

Novel
A.I. Bezzerides

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Ida Lupino

Mary Malden
Robert Ryan

Jim Wilson
Ward Bond

Walter Brent
Charles Kemper

Pop Daley
Anthony Ross

Pete Santos
Ed Begley

Capt. Brawley
Ian Wolfe

Sheriff Carrey
Sumner Williams

Danny Malden
Gus Schilling

Lucky
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On Dangerous Ground is directed by Nicholas Ray and stars Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan & Ward Bond. It's loosely adapted by Ray and A. I. Bezzerides from Gerald Butler's novel Mad With Much Heart. Cinematography is by George E. Diskant & the music is provided by Bernard Herrmann & Paul Sawtell. The story concerns Ryan's weary, lonely and psychologically bothered cop, Jim Wilson. Who after finally snapping the patience of his superiors is sent to Westham in the rural north to aid a murder case there. The idea is to get him off the streets he's so bitter about an... read the rest.

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