Down Three Dark Streets

1954

Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 55% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 55% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1748 1.7K

fbi film noir

Director

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Arnold Laven

Top cast

Harry Harvey Photo
Harry Harvey as Brenda Rollis' Neighbor
John Indrisano Photo
John Indrisano as Trainer
Martha Hyer Photo
Martha Hyer as Connie Anderson
Kenneth Tobey Photo
Kenneth Tobey as Zach Stewart
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785.67 MB
1280*732
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 5
1.42 GB
1888*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Doylenf 6 / 10

F.B.I. melodrama stars Broderick Crawford as agent...

Based on a novel by The Gordons called "Case File: F.B.I.", this is a semi-documentary style crime drama from Columbia starring BRODERICK CRAWFORD as a diligent F.B.I. agent John Ripley assigned to crack a few unsolved cases when a fellow agent on the job is killed in the line of duty.RUTH ROMAN, MARISA PAVAN and MARTHA HYER are the three women connected to the cases, all of whom give good performances but Pavan is particularly touching as a blind woman.The documentary style is nicely handled and there's a twist at the end that came as a real surprise to me.Not great, but an interesting example of satisfactory film noir.
Reviewed by dadier55 7 / 10

Look familiar?

DOWN THREE DARK STREETS, with its trio of cases for the FBI to solve, was the template eight years later for EXPERIMENT IN TERROR, reduced down to just the extortion plot. Broderick Crawford is "Agent John Ripley" in the first, Glenn Ford is named the same character in the second. STREETS uses the semi-documentary approach (heavy-handed voice-over narration) and is more of a whodunit, while EXPERIMENT is a real suspense-filled thriller with the villain identified much earlier. But even then, it is much more chilling. Ruth Roman is the fear-filled victim in the original, Lee Remick plays the spunky lady being extorted in the semi-remake. Good Los Angeles locales, especially the "Hollywood" sign usage in the first. But great San Francisco scenes in TERROR, particularly the Candlestick Park shootout following a Giants-Dodgers game. Both are recommended, with STREETS a competent mystery and EXPERIMENT a classic at the end of the Noir cycle.
Reviewed by gavin6942 7 / 10

Should Be Better Known

When FBI Agent Zack Stewart is killed, Agent John Ripley takes over the three cases he was working on, hoping one will lead to his killer. The first involves gangster Joe Walpo and Ripley finds his hideout through Joe's girl friend, Connie Anderson. Joe is killed but it is established he was 400 miles away when Stewart was murdered. The next involves a car-theft gang which Ripley breaks up by using one of the gang, Vince Angelino and his wife Julie. The last case involves Kate Martell, the victim of an extortionist who threatens to kidnap her child unless she pays him $10,000.This certainly is an interesting look at FBI cases and procedures, with them using bulky equipment to spy on neighbors, intercept phone calls and make identifications. But this was the 1950s, when such things were primitive and relatively innocent. (The FBI surveillance went too far in the 1960s and was shut down by the courts.) Very interesting film, well worth being better known. And the film quality seems to have held up very nicely over the years. The one on Netflix looks great.
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