Appointment with Danger

Appointment with Danger (1950)

ALAN LADD as the U.S. Mail's ace agent smashes the biggest mail robbery plan in history!

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

Date of release
1950-04-07
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (33)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Lewis Allen

Casting

Interesting facts

Appointment with Danger is a 1950 Paramount Pictures American crime film noir directed by Lewis Allen, written by Richard L. Breen and Warren Duff and starring Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling and Jack Webb.

Background

The film was announced in July 1948 under the title of Postal Inspector and envisioned as a vehicle for Alan Ladd. Ardel Wray and Robert L. Richards wrote the script, and the film was intended to follow Chicago Deadline (1949). The production was delayed to allow Ladd to appear in Captain Carey, U.S.A. The film's title was changed to Dead Letter. William Keighley was originally announced as the film's director, but he was replaced by Lewis Allen.

Phyllis Calvert was signed in April 1949. According to her, the studio did not believe that she would accept the part, as she had declined several previous film offers.

After six weeks of script rewrites, filming began on June 16, 1949. The title was changed again to United States Mail.

The film features Jack Webb and Harry Morgan as villains, later paired as Los Angeles police detectives on the Dragnet television show. The film's cowriter Richard L. Breen had previously worked with Webb on the radio series Pat Novak for Hire, and would write at least three scripts for Dragnet, including the 1954 theatrical film and the 1966 TV-movie pilot for the revival series.

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