Private Hell 36 (1954) on Netflix
Marked bills from a New York bank robbery unsolved for a year surface in a drugstore theft in Los Angeles. Detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham trace them to singer Lilli Marlowe.
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A year after a $300,000 bank robbery in New York City, the case is still open. Some of the marked bills turn up in a drugstore theft in Los Angeles, and the two detectives on the robbery, Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham, follow the trail to a nightclub. There the singer Lilli Marlowe holds one of the notes. She agrees to help them find a suspect she has met, and she and Cal grow close during the search. Jack is a family man, married to Francey, and he wants as normal a life as possible. Captain Michaels is the detectives' boss.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Private Hell 36 (1954)
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- The film is one of Don Siegel's early B movies and is notable for giving future auteur Sam Peckinpah, credited here under his first name, David, his start, he learned his craft on it as dialogue director.
- The racetrack scenes were shot at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California, with the leads rather than body doubles, and the interiors of real bars and shops were used so the actors could walk out into actual streets within the same scene.
- Private Hell 36 opens with a pre-credit sequence that foreshadowed the action teaser years before that device became commonplace on television series of the sixties.
- Typical of The Filmmakers' productions, the film's last title card misspells "Made in Hollywood, USA" as "Made in Holl[y]wood, USA."
