Initially intended as a pilot for the Dragnet-1967 TV series, featuring L.A. police detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners, but not aired until 1969.Initially intended as a pilot for the Dragnet-1967 TV series, featuring L.A. police detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners, but not aired until 1969.Initially intended as a pilot for the Dragnet-1967 TV series, featuring L.A. police detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners, but not aired until 1969.
Jean-Michel Michenaud
- Claude LeBorg
- (as Gerald Michenaud)
Ben Astar
- Russian Ambassador
- (uncredited)
Frank Baker
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Harry Bartell
- Jim Murdoch
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaPierce Brooks, the technical advisor on this film, was the Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective who originally solved the actual case on which this film was based.
- GoofsFriday and Gannon collect a picture of each of the missing women. At the end when they match the pictures to the photographs that Negler took of his bound victims, each woman is wearing the same outfit as in her portrait.
- Quotes
Sgt. Joe Friday: [busts the kitchen door with the suspect hiding behind it and knocks him down. The crook goes for his gun, but Friday has his pointed at his nose] Go ahead, pick it up.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Dragnet (1987)
- SoundtracksTheme From Dragnet (Danger Ahead)
Composed by Walter Schumann
Featured review
The Best "Dragnet" EVER
Although it's written by the same writer as "Dragnet" (1954), this film is the antidote to the theatrical production, and the best "Dragnet" Jack Webb ever did.
The actual case had occurred in the late 1950's, and had been worked by then-Sgt. Pierce Brooks, who served as technical consultant. (Wambaugh's "The Onion Field" was also a Brooks case.) A sex deviant photographs young, inexperienced models before raping and murdering them. Sgt. Friday and Officer Gannon try to find the killer pervert, and in the process they solve ANOTHER murder; that of a jewelry salesman from France who bears a striking resemblance to their suspect. The plot is gripping and (of course) well acted and directed. A great moment comes when Friday consoles the young son of the murdered jewelry salesman. It's a rare display of emotion for the "cop's cop." The dialogue is true-to-life, and so are the supporting characters - even the ones clearly played for laughs.
For anyone who wants to know why Webb's "Dragnet" was so successful, THIS is the film to see.
FACTOID: The film aired in 1969, but was actually shot in 1966. It wasn't intended as a pilot for a new series, but when NBC saw it, they wanted Webb back as Friday full time.
The actual case had occurred in the late 1950's, and had been worked by then-Sgt. Pierce Brooks, who served as technical consultant. (Wambaugh's "The Onion Field" was also a Brooks case.) A sex deviant photographs young, inexperienced models before raping and murdering them. Sgt. Friday and Officer Gannon try to find the killer pervert, and in the process they solve ANOTHER murder; that of a jewelry salesman from France who bears a striking resemblance to their suspect. The plot is gripping and (of course) well acted and directed. A great moment comes when Friday consoles the young son of the murdered jewelry salesman. It's a rare display of emotion for the "cop's cop." The dialogue is true-to-life, and so are the supporting characters - even the ones clearly played for laughs.
For anyone who wants to know why Webb's "Dragnet" was so successful, THIS is the film to see.
FACTOID: The film aired in 1969, but was actually shot in 1966. It wasn't intended as a pilot for a new series, but when NBC saw it, they wanted Webb back as Friday full time.
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- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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