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| Adam Williams and Edward G. Robinson in VICE SQUAD Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 |
A year before Edward G. Robinson starred in a film noir basically playing his KEY LARGO character but as a prison escaping, kidnapping psychopath in BLACK TUESDAY, he was on the other side of the law...
As he'd done several times including DOUBLE INDEMNITY, and here as a police chief in VICE SQUAD that, despite the title, has little to do with busting prostitutes, mostly since the 1950's didn't have that kind of freedom...
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| Edward G. Robinson and Dan Riss in VICE SQUAD |
The only connection to anything VICE-related is resilient escort-madame Paulette Goddard, who turns up in Robinson's headquarters with flirtatious help in what's a murder investigation instilled from the opening concerning lethal Lee Van Cleef, leader Edward Binns and weak-link Adam Williams...
Which leads to a bank robbery that Robinson and sidekick Dan Riss (who's really the star, frequently going outside for the real detective work) are trying to bust before it happens... in what really epitomizes the day-long police procedural sub-genre that, with Jay Adler as a scene-stealing weasel/informant, not only needed a far more suitable title, but would have fared better as a TV-pilot than feature.
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| Edward G. Robinson in VICE SQUAD |
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Edward G. Robinson in VICE SQUAD with Paulette Goddard
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| Edward Binns in VICE SQUAD |
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| Adam Williams in VICE SQUAD |
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| Lee Van Cleef and Edward Binns in VICE SQUAD |
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| Lee Van Cleef in VICE SQUAD |
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| Mary Ellen Kay in VICE SQUAD |
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| Adam Williams in VICE SQUAD |
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| Edward Binns in VICE SQUAD |
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| Dan Riss, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Kelley in VICE SQUAD |
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| Edward G. Robinson and Brian Kelley in VICE SQUAD |
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| Lee Van Cleef in VICE SQUAD |
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