This landmark crime movie, producer Mark Hellinger's hardboiled tribute to his beloved Big Apple, peels away all the stylistic melodramatics of noir to present Hollywood's first true policier. Detectives Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor) and Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) are tasked with solving the murder of an ex-model in a bathtub and sifting through the dubious list of suitors she left behind. Jules Dassin directs with the economy and precision of a real-life investigator, culminating in a chase scene that ranks among the finest that noir has ever featured. Scrupulously researched writing by Malvin Wald and vivid location photography by William Daniels (an Oscar®-winner) combined to make this one of the most influential Hollywood films of all-time, the template for thousands of cop shows to come.