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Wrongly accused of killing a bargirl he was seen with earlier. Dragnet premiered two years after the 1949 premiere of a dragnet radio show. The film was adapted from the radio series of the same name, and is part of the wider dragnet media franchise. It was a crime drama in a time when crime was being given a place at the table in popular american culture. Highway dragnet 1954 an exmarine richard conte accused of murder hitches a ride with a photographer joan bennett and her model wanda hendrix. Dragnet was the 1954 feature film adaptation of the popular television crime series that had premiered in 1951. Clues are slim except for the fact that he likes to drink scotch and listen to a certain song on the jukebox.
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