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After being fired for insubordination, homicide detective Mike Carter is hired as bodyguard by the owner of a local meat-packing plant where a meat inspector has been murdered.After being fired for insubordination, homicide detective Mike Carter is hired as bodyguard by the owner of a local meat-packing plant where a meat inspector has been murdered.After being fired for insubordination, homicide detective Mike Carter is hired as bodyguard by the owner of a local meat-packing plant where a meat inspector has been murdered.
Erville Alderson
- Adam Stone
- (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
- Little Man in Street
- (uncredited)
Charles Bedell
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Claire Carleton
- Zinnia
- (uncredited)
Russ Clark
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Marcelle Corday
- Madalena
- (uncredited)
David Cota
- Pachuco
- (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
- Detective Sgt. Burch
- (uncredited)
Ray Dolciame
- Frankie
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFinal film of Priscilla Lane.
- GoofsAfter Mike quits the force, he and Doris attend a baseball game which is tied in the bottom of the 9th inning, with two outs against the home team. The first pitch shown is a strike that the batter swings at and misses while a player on first base steals second base. The second pitch shown becomes a double into left field, scoring the runner from second base. At this point, the game should be over since the home team broke the tie in the bottom of the 9th. Nevertheless, the game is shown as continuing with the first batter now on second base. The next pitch shown becomes a single into right field, scoring the player who was on second. The home team now has scored twice in the bottom of 9th, yet the game continues further, with the next batter hitting a grounder to the shortstop, who gets a force-out at second. Finally, the game is over and Mike and Doris seem suddenly upset that their team (the visitors) have lost on that last out when in fact the game was lost two batters earlier. Even worse, a last shot of the scoreboard shows only one run for the bottom of the 9th instead of two.
- Quotes
Mike Carter: I keep the meat warm.
- ConnectionsReferences Gone with the Wind (1939)
Featured review
Not bad crime B picture with early work by Tierney, Fleischer and Robert Altman!
Director Richard Fleischer's lean crime thriller with Noirish touches features Lawrence Tierney as an ex-cop who gets caught up in a frame up and a murder or two. Priscilla Lane (in her final film role) plays his girlfriend who still works for the police and abets his investigation on the sly.
At barely over an hour, one can't expect much in the way of character development nor intricate plotting, but Fleischer and his four writers (including a young Robert Altman getting his first screen credit!) pack enough here to keep it interesting enough. Tierney suits the part of a thuggish investigator while Lane provides suitably perky support (the film is edited so tightly that it seems as though the couple are living together - without marriage! OMG! In 1948?!). Other familiar faces in the cast include Philip Reed, Steve Brodie and Elisabeth Risdon.
Fleischer went on to make several more crime pictures including the original NARROW MARGIN, while Tierney became an iconic tough guy (I used to see him hang out in a local revival house towards the end of his life. Always seated up close to the screen). BODYGUARD is very much a bottom half of the bill B movie, but, it's not a bad way to spend an hour.
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- gortx
- Jul 2, 2020
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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