Follow Me Quietly

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Follow Me Quietly
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Directed by	Richard Fleischer Anthony Mann (uncredited)
Produced by	Herman Schlom
Written by	Lillie Hayward Anthony Mann (story) Francis Rosenwald (story)
Starring	William Lundigan Dorothy Patrick Jeff Corey
Cinematography	Robert de Grasse
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Release date(s)	July 7, 1949 U.S. release
Running time	60 min.
Language	English
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Follow Me Quietly is a semidocumentary style film from 1949, focusing on the hunt for a lone serial killer.

Contents 1 Plot 1.1 Memorable scene 2 Reaction 3 Featured cast 4 References

[edit] Plot

A mysterious killer, known only as "The Judge", kills anyone he considers worthless. Detective Harry Grant (Lundigan) is assigned to track him down. With just a handful of clues, Grant constructs a faceless dummy to help his men conduct their investigation.

Police finally break the case after receiving an important clue. Finally, after cornering the killing during a chase on the catwalks of a refinery, the killer is revealed to be a middle-aged man whose cruel disposition and unattractive appearance lead him to become "The Judge."

[edit] Memorable scene

According to critics and film noir fans, the scene possibly best remembered, though illogical, finds the detective talking to the dummy, created to help track down the killer, in his office at the police station. In the end we found out it is the actual killer.

[edit] Reaction

Film writers Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward comment that "Fleischer's direction is direct, the dialogue tough, and the characters of the film infused with proper noir sensibilities. Follow Me Quietly is patterned in the mold of He Walked by Night.^[1]

[edit] Featured cast

Actor	Role
William Lundigan	Police Lt. Harry Grant
Dorothy Patrick	Ann Gorman
Jeff Corey	Police Sgt. Art Collins
Nestor Paiva	Benny
Charles D. Brown	Police Insp. Mulvaney

[edit] References