Thursday, November 15, 2007

The Lineup - Don Siegel (1958)

A docu-noir in the mold of T-Men and Dragnet filled with a cornucopia of truly vicious thugs working on their English grammar while pushing wheel chairs off balconies, using silencers in steam baths and taking 10 year olds hostage. The hitman's 'handler' obsessively collects 'famous last words' for his upcoming novel. Plenty of police procedural and crime labs. Opens with a frighteningly realistic car wreck and ends on an curving elevated highway to nowhere (shades of Speed).

Quote of the movie: "Women have no place in society, they don't appreciate the need for violence"

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