Crime Wave (1953) (The City Is Dark) (1953)

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Directed by

André De Toth

Starring (View all)

Sterling Hayden
Det. Lt. Sims

Gene Nelson
Steve Lacey

Phyllis Kirk
Ellen Lacey

Ted de Corsia
'Doc' Penny

Charles Bronson
Ben Hastings

Jay Novello
Dr. Otto Hessler

Nedrick Young
Gat Morgan

James Bell
Daniel O'Keefe

Written by

Crane Wilbur
(screen play)

John Hawkins

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Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.

Release date: 7 December 1953

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"Something like a god looks down over Los Angeles by night, and though he breathes out so much authority there’s not enough wind left to raise his voice, he’s also betrayed by the pack of toothpicks he smokes every shift. Ink-eyed and unflappable Detective Lieutenant Sims (Sterling Hayden) is that god in André De Toth’s Crime Wave, a relentlessly unforced potboiler that gazes at noir through the looking glass. (Or should that be through the glass ceiling?) Sims’s crime-fighting battle pl"