Follow Me Quietly (1949)
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50% of users liked it
(41 ratings)
Lieutenant Harry Grant (William Lundigan) and Sgt. Art Collins (Jeff Corey) have been handed the unenviable assignment of tracking down "The Judge," a mysterious serial murderer responsible for seven deaths over the past few months. The police have plenty of clues and forensic evidence,… More Lieutenant Harry Grant (William Lundigan) and Sgt. Art Collins (Jeff Corey) have been handed the unenviable assignment of tracking down "The Judge," a mysterious serial murderer responsible for seven deaths over the past few months. The police have plenty of clues and forensic evidence, but no solid leads to who this highly resourceful strangler is. Complicating Grant's work is the presence of Ann Gorman (Dorothy Patrick), an ambitious reporter for a sensationalistic crime magazine, who keeps sticking her nose into this case and into his work. In exasperation over The Judge's latest victim, a newspaper editor named McGill (Frank Ferguson), Grant decides to take a novel approach to catching the killer -- he prepares a life-size blank-faced dummy using all the clues the police have, as to height, weight, physique, preferred way of dressing etc., in order to give his officers a clearer picture of who and what they're looking for. The result is creepy but effective, and soon Grant is getting closer to the killer -- but The Judge is insane, and agitated by all manner of outside stimuli, and he might prove too much even for a police detective to deal with in a direct confrontation. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
- Directed By
- Richard Fleischer
- Written By
- Lillie Hayward
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 14, 1949 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Sean Axmaker, Parallax View
This was clearly timed to play the bottom of a double bill, but it has better production values than most B-movies and Fleischer devotes much greater care to the direction.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Effectively filmed in a semi-documentary style.
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Cast
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William Lundigan
as Lt. Harry Grant
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Dorothy Patrick
as Ann Gorman
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Jeff Corey
as Sgt. Art Collins
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Charles D. Brown
as Insp. Mulvaney
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Paul Guilfoyle
as Overbeck
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Edwin Max
as Judge
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Frank Ferguson
as McGill
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Marlo Dwyer
as Waitress
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Michael Branden
as Dixon
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Douglas Spencer
as Phony Judge
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Paul Bryar
as Sgt. Bryce
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Maurice Cass
as Bookstore owner
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Martin Cichy
as Cop
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Virginia Farmer
as Woman
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Robert Emmett Keane
as Coroner
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Nolan Leary
as Larson
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Howard Mitchell
as Don Bartender
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Nestor Paiva
as Benny
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Lee Phelps
as Detective
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Archie Twitchell
as Dixon
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Joe Whitehead
as Ed
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Wanda Cantlon
as Waitress
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Walden Boyle
as Intern
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Art Dupuis
as Detective
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Cy Stevens
as Kelly
