Shield for Murder

by William P. McGivern, Edmond O'Brien, Howard W. Koch

$75 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1954. Original pressbook for the 1954 film noir, based on the 1951 novel by William P. McGivern. Howard W. Koch, director of The Girl in the Black Stockings 1957 here creates an unsparing view for its time of the violence and corruption often seen behind the badge of a police officer. Barney Nolan Edmond O'Brien becomes a bad cop in an otherwise cozy suburban atmosphere, then deconstructed and invariably led

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