TV Guide (July 24, 1954)

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
July 24, 1954
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - New England (July 24, 1954)
Leaf #:
0004
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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Webb applies bandages, only make¬ up he used, for a film sequence. A policewoman (Ann Robinson) turns up vital evidence during hunt for killer. Otherwise it is Dragnet, pure and simple. Jack Webb, who also directed, plays Sgt. Joe Friday. Ben Alexander plays Officer Frank Smith. And the veteran radio and TV performers in the cast have appeared many times on the home-screen Dragnet. The head villain in the picture, in fact, is Stacy Harris, villain of the very first Dragnet film, “Time Bomb.” If the long, long “Dragnet” turns a neat profit for Warners, the movie industry is going to have to revise its thinking in. a number of ways. (Webb himself says, “The picture may lay the biggest egg of all time or it may make a couple of million dollars. I just don’t know.”) When Webb and his small horde of TV film experts moved in on the vast Warners lot in Burbank, a lot of things happened that had never happened before at a major Hollywood studio. “These,” a veteran Warners staffer muttered, (Continued on page 6) 5 Rare smile: Webb and Miss Robinson relax during the hectic movie schedule.