Dial Red O (1955)

Directed by

Daniel B. Ullman

Genre

crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 03m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A police detective investigates a brutal crime in Los Angeles. The film follows his pursuit of the perpetrators through the city's darker corners.

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What happens

Dial Red O is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Daniel B. Ullman and starring Bill Elliott, Helene Stanley and Keith Larsen. It was the first in a series of five Los Angeles-set police thrillers that Elliott made for Allied Artists at the end of his career. The letter "O" in the title actually represents a zero, since it is supposed to be the number on a phone dial. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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