On Dangerous Ground (1951) (MOD)

On Dangerous Ground (1951) (MOD)"Why do you make me do it?" New York cop Jim Wilson asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside. and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman. Directed with intensity by Nicholas Ray

spies and sci-fi

half alligator

they never suspect it's really Danny Dugan (Bobby Mauch)

Why is someone stalking her

A rivulet of water seeping through the rocks beneath an earthen dam

flatfoot Tom Hayes (Tom Moore) helps a "nice girl like" Julia (Blanche Sweet) "out of a place like this

More shocking still

featuring an articulated carriage with opening doors and removable roof attached to the Thestral figure with hinged wings

and inside the tent is a bed

The ditzy D

all of them - have delineated robust characters" (Bosley Crowther

all 50 tons of it) that swims down from the north to run amok through New York City before being conquered in a spectacular Coney Island roller-coaster finale