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To me, this movie is perfection.

Beautiful, moving film.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Police Captain Haines(Moroni Olsen)is fed up with the public's lack of approval on the way a crime epidemic is being handled. He orders his men to clear up their investigations without violating the constitutional rights of the arrested criminals. This will please the newly appointed head of the Police Department Lab and internal affairs. Detective Jim Logan(Bruce Cabot)is of the old school opinion...a little pushing and thumping is OK in making an arrest. Haines is forced to demote him, but Logan doesn't really care. He discovers that some local junk dealers are enabling crime bosses in the accumulation of scrap metal to send to foreign powers(not clearly identified) to manufacture munitions in aiding their war efforts.After this movie, Miss Hayworth will be on her way to major stardom. At times Cabot seems one-dimensional and pedestrian to the script. Other players include: Marc Lawrence, Norman Willis, Richard Fiske and Stanley Andrews.

Homicide Bureau (1939) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Fun and fast paced Columbia 'B' film has Bruce Cabot playing a homicide detective who wants to use force to get confessions from some gangsters trying to take the city over. If you're a fan of 'B' films then you should get a kick out of this one since there's never a dull moment within its 57-minute running time. There's plenty of fast action as well as a nice shoot out at the end that makes this one a tad bit better than most in its field. Cabot is always worth watching and he does a nice job here. Rita Hayworth has a small supporting role as a forensic expert.

With the US just about to enter the war, Hollywood started to bend toward the mission. This is a rather interesting and peculiar case.Its an ordinary police procedural, with a tough cop, someone who yearns for what in movieland was "the good old days" when he could just beat crooks up. But the world is different now, presumably because the characters have to rise to the moral challenge. That's the first striking change we see.But there are two others, and the way they are spliced in makes it easy to imagine the script planning discussions.Early in the war, planners thought it would be short and determined by the ability to manufacture things fast. Since the pipeline for steel was longer than they thought the war would last, and had other problems, the idea was to call in the nation's scrap. So this plot has evil profiteers diverting scrap to enemies. This plot point is screwed a bit when we learn there is more deadly cargo included, but I suppose they thought it sufficient to just mention scrap and its importance.The other change is the movement of women into men's jobs. In this story there's a completely inessential line about Rita Hayworth taking over the job of chief forensic scientist and proving her mettle. Naturally, she still is a romantic interest who gets won by the tough cop.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

With all the criminal forensics displayed on television these days it's a surprise to see a late version thirties version of it. Avoiding the autopsy part, RIta Hayworth playing a forensic expert examines murder weapons and other physical evidence. Nobody makes a big deal about her gender except at first. I was expecting to see her quit and get married by the end of the film but surprisingly she never even comes close to thinking about it. While a major part of the movie, the forensics is second to the main topic of the movie, police brutality.The police force is under new rules passed by the city council preventing the police from roughing up the suspects. The officers chafe under the restrictions just hoping for a chance to torment the apparent villains into a confession. The brutality isn't shown, just alluded to, except in a scene where the hero cop breaks into a crook's apartment and throws him around until an accident nearly kills the crook. There's also a scene where the city politicians react to a dragnet that the police do in a desperate attempt to solve a murder.It actually interesting until the point where the standard B movie plot dynamics take over and the film reverts to typical matinée cops and robbers complete with a kidnapping, a silly shootout and eventual redemption for the tough guy hero. The police brutality topic is, unfortunately, dropped.Pretty good except for the standard ending.