Conciencia culpable

Conciencia culpable (1954)

Highway Dragnet

La señora Cummings, una fotógrafa de revista, viuda reciente tras el suicidio de su marido, y su modelo, Susan, están trabajando en California y Nevada. Conduciendo hacia el oeste desde Las Vegas, recogen a Jim Henry, un marine recién licenciado que hace autostop con el fin de que alguien lo lleve a casa de un amigo, cerca de Salton Sea. Mientras tanto, en Las Vegas, una rubia que conoció Jim es encontrada asesinada. Jim se convierte así, en el objeto de una persecución policial, dirigida por el teniente White Eagle, de la policía de Las Vegas.

Fecha de estreno
1954-01-20
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (33)
Duración
1 h 10 min
Géneros
Crimen, Drama, Suspense
Director
Nathan Juran

Reparto

Curiosidades

  • Rodada en: California

Highway Dragnet is a 1954 American film noir directed by Nathan Juran from a story by U.S. Andersen and Roger Corman. The film stars Richard Conte, Joan Bennett and Wanda Hendrix. It was Roger Corman's first feature film credit. Corman also worked as an associate producer.

Production

Corman said the story was based on a trip he had taken to the Salton Sea. "The Salton Sea is overflowing its banks in the desert, and I saw all these old houses that were deserted," he said. "The first floors were flooded, and I thought it would be a great climax to a picture — some sort of chase across the desert and a shoot-out in the flooded house. So, I started with the climax of the film and worked back to create my story."

While working at the Dick Hyland Agency, Roger Corman sold his first screen story called The House in the Sea to Allied Artists for $3,500. Allied Artists changed the title to the more commercial exploitative title, Highway Dragnet, after the success of the television series Dragnet.

Quitting his job, and joining the production as an unpaid worker, Corman ended up getting credits as a screenwriter and associate producer. Portions of the film were shot in the Coachella Valley, California.

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