Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 12/06/2005
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2/DD1
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective
Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler
Ken Paine (
Craig Stevens) as a murder suspect,
Dixon subjects
Paine to the third degree -- and accidentally kills him. In disposing of the body,
Dixon inadvertently places the blame for the killing on cab driver
Jiggs Taylor (
Tom Tully). Having fallen in love with
Jigg's daughter,
Morgan (
Gene Tierney),
Dixon tries to clear the cabbie without implicating himself, but ultimately he becomes trapped in a web of his own making; luckily
Morgan promises to stand by him.
Where the Sidewalk Ends was adapted from a novel by
William L. Stuart; its director was
Otto Preminger, who'd previously put
Andrews and
Tierney through their paces in
Laura (1944).
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
