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
IMDb profile

Follow Me Quietly is a semidocumentary style film from 1949, focusing on the hunt for a lone serial killer.

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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.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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."

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.

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]

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

  1. ^ Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward (1992). Film Noir An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style. The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5. 
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