The Lineup (film)

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The Lineup

The Lineup movie poster
Directed by Don Siegel
Produced by Jaime Del Valle
Written by Stirling Silliphant
Starring Eli Wallach
Robert Keith
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) June 11, 1958 (U.S. release)
Running time 86 min
Language English
IMDb profile

The Lineup is a 1958 feature film version of the police procedural series that ran on CBS radio from 1950 through 1953 and on CBS television from 1954 through 1960, directed by Don Siegel. The film has a number of scenes shot on location in San Francisco during the late 1950s including shots of Embarcadero Freeway.

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An international drug-smuggling racket plants heroin on unsuspecting American tourists traveling in Asia, so that the dope traffic can pass through customs undetected. Two psychopathic killers (Eli Wallach and Robert Keith) and their driver Richard Jaeckel then collect the contraband.

The film contains the line, "When you live outside the law, you have to eliminate dishonesty," of which Jonathan Letham writes that "Bob Dylan heard it…, cleaned it up a little, and inserted it into 'Absolutely Sweet Marie'" (as "To live outside the law you must be honest.").[1]

Actor Role
Eli Wallach Dancer
Robert Keith Julian
Warner Anderson Lt. Ben Guthrie
Richard Jaeckel Sandy McLain
Mary LaRoche Dorothy Bradshaw
William Leslie Larry Warner

  1. ^ Jonathan Lethem, "The Ecstasy of Influence", Harper's, February 2007, 59–71. p. 59.

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