Perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is Otto Preminger's 'Where the Sidewalks Ends,' from a really excellent script by Ben Hecht based on the novel 'Night Cry' by Frank Rosenberg. Dana Andrews is the honest, tough New York policeman, always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong-arm methods as much as he detests crooks. When he hit someone, his knuckles hurt. And the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain (Gary Merrill) who points up the title. 'Why are you always trying to push me in the gutter?' he asks Andrews. 'I have as much right on the sidewalk as you. this film showed great camera work and use lighting in great ways. they zoomed in great and used the camera as a character in the film. Over all this is a good movie it worth watching and recommend it to everyone.
Review of Where the Sidewalk Ends
