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San Francisco, California | Sniper
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Best Writing Motion Picture Story | 1953
After making this film, Adolphe Menjou, a very vocal anti-communist, was asked why he chose to work with director Edward Dmytryk, who had been imprisoned and blacklisted for his communist sympathies. Menjou replied, "Because I'm a whore".
This marked director Edward Dmytryk's return to directing after being blacklisted and serving time in prison for contempt of Congress when he refused to name names of his Communist associates to the House Un-American Activities Committee. As "punishment" for his earlier association with Communist groups, Dmytryk was assigned to direct Adolphe Menjou, who had been one of the most fervent supporters of HUAC in Hollywood. Despite their history of political differences, the two got along fairly well during filming.
In an early example of product placement, Arthur Franz as Eddie Miller drinks a Blatz beer from Marie Windsor's refrigerator.
Although actual street names are not used, locations are accurately represented as to their geographic proximity to each other on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill; Eddie (Arthur Franz) lives in the 400 block of Filbert, between Grant Avenue and Kearny, directly opposite Varennes, which is the narrow alley through which he runs; Jean (Marie Windsor) lives on Calhoun Terrace within walking distance of the Paper Doll Club where she works, which was located at 524 Union St., one block south of Filbert.
The tall man on the left in the second police lineup is Jesse White, most popularly known as the original "Maytag Repairman" in Maytag washer and dryer TV commercials.
"Police Photographer: [Referring to photographing the dead body] How about one with the sheet off, Lieutenant? Just one, that's all. Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Not a chance! Police Photographer: Why not? What's the matter? Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Listen, food's too expensive to spoil people's appetite for breakfast. I wouldn't want a dead girl on my front page. Police Photographer: You've got one anyway. Police Lt. Frank Kafka: I don't like dead girls on the front page or anywhere else. Police Sgt. Joe Ferris: [Interjecting] Should've been with me last night. You wouldn't have liked a couple of live ones. I had a lot of trouble last night."
"Police Sgt. Joe Ferris: No word from the boyfriend yet. Police Lt. Frank Kafka: He'll probably turn up as soon as he reads the papers. From what I know about musicians, they're not that neat when they decide to get rid of their dames."
