Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950) Film Summary

1. Where the Sidewalk Ends | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Ashamed that his father lived a life of crime, hard-boiled New York City cop Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) has a reputation for being too tough on criminals.

  • Ashamed that his father lived a life of crime, hard-boiled New York City cop Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) has a reputation for being too tough on criminals. So when Dixon unintentionally kills a murder suspect during a routine questioning, he hides the fact from the department and tries to pin the killing on his nemesis, notorious gangster Scalise (Gary Merrill). The snag in the cop's plan comes when his boss wrongly accuses the father of Dixon's love interest, Morgan (Gene Tierney), of the murder.

2. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) Otto Preminger - Andy Wolverton

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  • (This review originally appeared as part of my Noirvember 2014 posts.)Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)Directed and Produced by Otto PremingerScreenplay by Ben HechtStory by Victor Trivas, Frank P. Rosenberg, Robert E. Kent Based on Night Cry by William L. StuartCinematography by Joseph LaShelleEdited by Louis LoefflerMusic by Cyril MockridgeDistributed by 20th Century Fox(1:35) Fox DVDWhile New York City’s 16th Precinct welcomes new commander Detective Lieutenant Thomas (Karl Malden), Detective Ma

3. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - The Silver Screen Oasis

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  • Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

4. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM

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  • A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

5. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - NYC in Film

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  • “Where the Sidewalk Ends” is a film that reunites director Otto Preminger with Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, stars of his 1944 smash, “Laura.” Both titles are quintessentia…

6. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Movie Review / Film Essay

7. WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950) - Where Danger Lives

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8. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Letterboxd

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  • New York City cop Mark Dixon is already in trouble with his superiors for his brutal tactics when he accidentally kills a murder suspect. To protect himself, he decides to cover up the crime and pin the killing on a racketeer—a situation that grows complicated when the father of the woman Dixon loves is implicated as a suspect. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2004.

9. Review: Otto Preminger's Where the Sidewalk Ends on Twilight Time Blu ...

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  • Twilight Time honors another key American noir with a beautiful transfer that’s complemented by an affectionate and informed commentary.

10. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Otto Preminger - film review

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  • An in-depth review of the film Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), directed by Otto Preminger.

11. Review: Where the Sidewalk Ends | everythingnoir

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  • Where the Sidewalk Ends is a classic film noir from 1950 directed by noir great Otto Preminger.  We have more noir greatness in the two leading stars, Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney.  All three work…

12. Where The Sidewalk Ends, 1950 - Heart of Noir

  • Bitter cop Mark Dixon (Andrews) accidentally kills Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) while questioning him, so he hides the body and concocts an alibi for himself.

  • “Why you always trying to push me in the gutter? I got as much right on the sidewalk as you do.” There’s something unusually quiet about Otto Preminger’s Where the Sidewalk Ends: the sobriety of Dana Andrews’ personality, relatively slow pace, ambient score, intimate studio sets, overcast lighting, the watcher in the window. In fact, there’s a certain quietude and dream-like quality to all of Preminger’s noirs, especially his first and more famous pairing of Andrews and Gene Tierney six years earlier (Laura, 1944), and here again from the first frame as the opening credits appear with no musical score aside from a brief whistling of Alfred Newman’s “Street Scene.” Already on probation for roughing up too many suspects, bitter cop Mark Dixon (Andrews) accidentally kills Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) while questioning him, so he hides the body and concocts an alibi for himself. Now called on to investigate his own crime (a compelling premise shared with The Man Who Cheated Himself released the same year), Dixon forms a bond with the victim’s gorgeous, estranged wife Morgan Taylor (Tierney), but the relationship is based on a lie, especially after circumstantial evidence makes Morgan’s easygoing father, taxi driver Jiggs (Tom Tully), the primary suspect for Dixon’s crime. Gary Merrill plays crime boss Tommy Scalisi, who will come to blows with Dixon before all is said and done. LaShelle paints with bars of light that turn a variety of sets (the precinct building, the attorney’s offi...

13. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Alex on Film

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  • *. I like the way the main titles are chalked on the sidewalk, but you have to be alert to get what it is the title is referring to. When they first confront each other, Scalise complains to Dixon:…

14. Where the Sidewalk Ends - Senses of Cinema

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  • Boris Trbic July 2000 CTEQ Annotations on Film

15. Noirvember Review: 'Where the Sidewalk Ends'

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  • Every November fans of classic cinema celebrate one of the great genres of filmdom, the film noir. These beloved films ensure fans get their fill of; gritty streets, tough detectives, dark alleys, …

16. Where the Sidewalk Ends (Film) - TV Tropes

  • A violent NYPD cop haunted by his father's criminal past. When he accidentally kills Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) while investigating a murder.

  • Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1950 Film Noir, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney. The screenplay by Ben Hecht was adapted from the 1948 novel Night Cry by William L. Stuart. Mark Dixon (Andrews) is a violent NYPD …

17. Where the Sidewalk Ends | Riding the High Country

  • Dec 28, 2022 · A form of psychological trial by ordeal, where the moral fiber of a man is measured by his ability to meet the challenge laid down by his own past.

  • Otto Preminger’s Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) has the feel of something that might have been cooked up had Cornell Woolrich and William P McGivern ever decided to collaborate on a story. Th…

18. Where The Sidewalk Ends: Anger & Guilt - NRTFilm

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  • Otto Preminger's 1950 film Where The Sidewalk Ends is about as dark and gritty as a 1950's American noir can get. It takes on topics and subject matter considered taboo at its release, including...

19. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Make Mine Film Noir

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  • Blog about film noir, neo-noir, noir literature, movies, film.

20. Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950) Movie Review from Eye for Film

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  • The detective as murderer is now such a hackneyed device that crime writing societies specifically caution against it, but back in 1950, when the crime thriller was at its cinematic apogee, it fitted naturally into the medium - and suited Dana Andrews to a tee. Here he plays Dixon, a troubled police officer who, in seeking to cover up an accidental killing, finds himself losing control of an increasingly fraught situation. Is there a way out? Director Preminger and screenwriter Hecht, reprising what was by then a massively successful pairing, keep the question open in this dark and gritty thriller.

21. Archived Movie Review: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950).

  • May 14, 2023 · A tough police detective, repeatedly in trouble for beating up suspects in cases he’s investigating, accidentally kills one of them, a guy ...

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