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He Walked By Night (1948) -- (Movie Clip) This Is Los Angeles Narration by Reed Hadley introduces Los Angeles to the world in the true-crime thriller He Walked By Night, 1948, directed by Alfred Werker, from a script by Crane Wilbur and John C. Higgins.
Witness in Pajamas and Robe (uncredited) Alma Beltran. ... Miss Montalvo (uncredited) Robert Bice. ... Detective with Capt. Breen (uncredited) Chief Bradley.
A psychotic loner uses his genius for electronics to commit robberies while evading the police. When he kills a cop, Los Angeles’s finest police specialists employ new crime-fighting techniques to trap their clever adversary. The manhunt leads through—and beneath—Los Angeles’ darkest cityscapes.
I n Alfred L. Werker’s He Walked By Night, noir master John Alton’s cinematography turns Los Angeles into a sepulchral labyrinth (think flashlights in drainage tunnels), which serves as a beautiful setting for a manhunt and, possibly, an aesthetic influence on Carol Reed’s famous sewer sequence in The Third Man, released the following year.
Routinely driving home alone in the wee hours of the morning after his shift, LAPD Officer Robert Rawlins stumbles upon what he believes is a burglary, only the latest in a rash, many like this one at a radio store. In confronting the possible perpetrator, Rawlins is shot by the perpetrator - Rawlins eventually succumbing to his injuries ...
May 30, 2015 · Crane Wilbur. Screenplay, Story. Alfred L. Werker. Director. John C. Higgins. Screenplay. Written by John Chard on May 30, 2015. This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
He Walked by Night is a 1948 police procedural film noir, directed by Alfred L. Werker and Anthony Mann. The film, shot in semidocumentary tone, was loosely based on newspaper accounts of 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 during 1945 and 1946.
