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Release year: 1951

Storyline

Rough, violent city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain who sends him upstate to a snowy mountain town to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

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Cast

Ida Lupino — Mary Malden
Robert Ryan — Jim Wilson
Ward Bond — Walter Brent
Charles Kemper — Pop Daley

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Did you know

• A hand-held camera was used in many scenes to give a "live action" feel to those sequences. This was extremely rare in feature films of the time.

• Ida Lupino directed the film for several days when Nicholas Ray fell ill.

• Nicholas Ray had wanted a more downbeat ending in which Wilson tries to reconcile with Mary, but she spurns him, asking him, "What difference does it make?" Wilson then returns to his job, but with a newfound sense of calm. However, RKO made Ray film a new ending which made the final cut of the movie.