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Synopsis: In San Francisco, two police inspectors are on the case when a rogue taxi driver, with the help of a rogue porter, manages to steal the suitcase of an antiques collector before running down a cop, whose dying gesture is to shoot the cabbie dead. The inspectors discover that a statuette in the suitcase contains heroin. Meanwhile, a psychopathic gangster, his malignant mentor and their dipsomaniac driver have the job of picking up the other heroin shipments, hidden in the luggage of unsuspecting travelers. All goes well until they attempt to retrieve the heroin stuffed in a Japanese doll. A little girl and her lovely young mother have the doll, but when the crooks take possession of it, they find that the heroin has mysteriously vanished.
Director(s): Don Siegel
Production: Columbia Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
APPROVED
Year:
1958
86 min
202 Views


Using that stuff to powder her dolly's nose.

When it got goofed up,

I couldn't drop a short shipment...

without some explanation,

Could I?

Could I?

All right, children,

time to go.

There's lots more to see.

Are you gonna say anything?

You're dead.

Mister! Mister!

Thank you.

Come on, Janet.

Dead?

What do you mean, dead?

I told you how it was.

They're right -

That's the truth.

Nobody ever sees me.

That's gonna make you dead.

Maybe you'll make it to the airport.

Maybe you won't.

But your time is borrowed.

You're dead.

Now get out!

Aaaahhh!

It's the first car beyond the bus.

Remember - there's

a woman and child in that car.

You better notify communications

we're here.

Yes, sir.

Hold it!

Police!

We got about 2 minutes

to make golden gate bridge

Before they set up roadblocks.

If you can't make it,

we'd better scatter now.

I'm your boy.

I'll get you out.

Attention all cars,

Effective immediately,

A signal 666 is imposed.

Fugitive vehicle - gray,

1957 Plymouth sedan.

License - 'm' - Mary,

't' - Thomas,

'h' - Henry, 889.

Last seen heading east on seal rock road.

All cars in the vicinity of sea cliff,

Watch for suspect car

proceeding in your direction.

Alert highway patrol.

Vicinity - Golden Gate Bridge.

Notify military police - Presidio.

There she is.

It's all right, honey.

Don't worry.

What happened?

Our fee got raised for this job.

We can peddle this stuff for a mint.

I told you how to handle it!

What went wrong?!

I came on just like You said - real easy.

I told him what happened.

I tried to sell him,

but he wouldn't buy it.

That's all.

That's all?

You put us in the

deep freeze and then you -

Look out!

What else is there?!

It happened!

Maybe I should cry!

Maybe it's not too late.

Maybe I could see the man

and I could explain it.

He won't hear you.

not him?

Not after what I told you

would happen to us.

Maybe you wanna go back...

and look at what's left of him on that ice.

He pushed me too far!

Look out!

So I pushed him just far enough.

Get us out.

You got us in there,

you get us out!

They're trying to kill us!

Aaahh!

We got 2 choices -

Either we get killed by this jerk,

Or we stop and shoot it out.

You want to stop and shoot it out, Julian?

I - you know I never fired a gun in my life.

Then cool it!

From here on in,

I'm running the show - me.

You're in the back seat.

That's where you stay.

They beat us here!

The bridge is blocked!

It's okay, though.

I got a hide-out - A warehouse on fulsome.

Fugitive car speeding east

on fort scott road.

Inspectors 32 following suspect car east...

on fort scott road.

The warehouse is on the next block.

You wanna live, mac,

You'll get us out of here and get us out fast.

We're in luck.

There's a freeway just ahead.

Why, you stupid!

Dancer!

The last thing the man

in the wheelchair said...

'now get out.'

Was that for the book,

Julian?

No, dancer! No!

And just before that?

Say something for the book.

Aaahh!

No, you can't!

Mommy!

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Stirling Silliphant

Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his screenplay for In the Heat of the Night, for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television series Naked City and Route 66. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. more…

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