I love this movie so much

Very best movie i ever watch

Sorry, this movie sucks

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Great B flick. Love the location shooting. One error however. It's 9020 Jackson, not 2090. In earlier scene ship side, you'll catch the mistake in dialog concerning the address.. This film grew out of the TV series, Lineup, which also starred Warner Anderson and Tom Tully. Lineup was also tagged San Francisco Beat. In the TV series the detectives drove Fords. In the movie, they drove Plymouths.

How could you go wrong? Directed by Siegal.Written by Silliphant.Starring Wallach.I realize as this is written (2016) B&W police procedurals from the 1950s are no longer cool, and to many this is a piece of history.But I just re-watched it and I suggest it holds up regardless of age. The last 10 minutes includes a scene where one of the two gangsters explains to a helpless female captive that criminals "need" violence and that regular folk never understood that. A double irony -- and a credit to Silliphant's genius -- is that this particular character never touched a gun in his life.Wallach of course steals the show. By a bizarre coincidence I was watching GOOD BAD AND UGLY (Leone) on another device at the same time and I was gob-smacked at how this actor could hold the camera like no other.Recommended.

This unspectacular cops and robbers chase through the streets of San Francisco sees the City's Finest hot (actually more lukewarm) on the trail of a network of heroin traffickers, finally cornering them on the unfinished Embarcadero Freeway, still under construction in 1958. To its credit the film (based on an early television series) neatly incorporates several Bay Area locations into the plot, but the style is as dated as the gray hats and suits worn by the uncharismatic paragons of law and order in their unblinking pursuit of evidence. The villains, thankfully, are given more attention, making an attractive assortment of psychopaths and social misfits.

Tightly scripted, excitingly staged, and brilliantly acted by Eli Wallach, this is a real sleeper. It could have been just another slice of thick-ear on the order of the Dragnet movie (1954). But thanks to writer Stirling Silliphant, director Don Siegel, and actor Wallach, The Lineup stands as one of the best crime films of the decade.Someone in production made a key decision to shoot the film entirely on location in San Francisco, and rarely have locations been used more imaginatively then here, from dockside to Nob Hill to the streets and freeways, plus lively entertainment spots. The producers of 1968's Bullit must have viewed this little back-and-whiter several times over, especially the car chase.Colorless detectives Warner Anderson and Emile Meyer (standing in for Tom Tully of the TV series of the same name) are chasing down psychopathic hit-man Wallach and mentor Robert Keith, who in turn are chasing down bags of smuggled narcotics. Dancer (Wallach) is simply chilling. You never know when that dead-pan stare will turn homicidal, even with little kids. Good thing his sidekick, the literary-inclined Julian (Keith), is there as a restraining force, otherwise the city might be seriously de-populated. Cult director Siegel keeps things moving without let-up, and even the forces of law and order are kept from stalling the action. My favorite scene is where Dancer goes slowly bonkers at the uncooperative Japanese doll. Watch his restrained courtship manners with the lonely mother (Mary La Roche) come unraveled as he reverts to psychopathic form, while mother and daughter huddle in mounting panic at the man they so trustingly brought home. It's a riveting scene in a film filled with them.The Line Up is another of those unheralded, minor gems that has stood the test of time, unlike so many of the big-budget cadavers of that year or any year.