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The Year in Pictures

Two police car patrolmen are making their rounds on the beat.

Standard crime story saved by outstanding location shooting.

Sends a bad message, and the casting was a stretch

Yes, the photography is the star here, going out on the street and giving an outstanding view of what locations looked like in the early 1930&#39;s. In a sense, it&#39;s a precursor to TV crime dramas of the 1960&#39;s and 70&#39;s, particularly &quot;Adam 12&quot;, &quot;The Streets of San Francisco&quot; and &quot;C.H.I.P.&#39;s&quot;. Tim McCoy, a star of B westerns, escapes from that genre, playing a rookie cop who finds himself a hero by being in the right place at the right time to hold up the right side of the law. An outstanding opening involving a shootout gets everything going, and there&#39;s no time to be let down because it never slows down. He deals with the presence of escaped master criminal Edwin Maxwell, a &quot;man of many faces&quot; who poses as a doctor while plotting his revenge on wounded cop Wallis Clark, the father of Evelyn Knapp whom McCoy has a crush on. It is obvious by the time that this is over, he&#39;ll get papa&#39;s approval for being an all-around good guy. The way the camera moves really takes you out onto the street and you feel like you are part of the action. The industrial locations that this was filmed in, perhaps in the valley outside Los Angeles, shows what the city look like before it was truly built up. The acting is serviceable but the action makes this a B programmer that deserves credit for its technical excellence. Of the actors, Maxwell stands out as the lead villain, with Harold Huber as a boyfriend of Knapp&#39;s who seems to be in the know ofwhat is going on with the prison escape and Maxwell&#39;s whereabouts and intentions. One amusing scenario has McCoy eating a separated couple where the father picked up the son from school, faced with a kidnapping charge, and McCoy playing marital counselor so he doesn&#39;t have to make an arrest. Quite worth a viewing if you are lucky enough to find it.

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Police Car 17

I have been a fan of Tim McCoy&#39;s B-westerns for years. Imagine my surprise when I found several films he made for Columbia Pictures that were NOT westerns! I really wish I&#39;d known this sooner! In &quot;Police Car 17&quot;, McCoy and Ward Bond play cops. Early in the film, Tim meets a nice lady (Evelyn Knapp) and takes her home...only to learn two things. First, Helen&#39;s dating a very shady character, Johnny Davis (Harold Huber). Second, she&#39;s the daughter of Lt. Regan...a veteran cop who was retired from the force after he was shot and paralyzed by a scum-bag, Bill Bill Standish. After Helen leaves with Johnny, Tim sticks around and strikes up a friendship with Regan....and soon the radio announces that Standish has escaped from prison!! And, Standish has vowed to finish the job on Regan!! So it&#39;s up to Tim to make sure the Lt. Is safe AND that eventually Helen learn the truth about Johnny. This is such a B-movie...and that&#39;s not meant as an insult! It runs at 57 minutes, has a VERY high-paced and action-filled plot and is enjoyable, undemanding fun. In other words, it&#39;s the enjoyable sort of 1930s film they really don&#39;t make any more. McCoy is excellent...and I enjoyed his beating the truth out of Johnny in order to save the day...very much a 1930s view of proper police procedure!!

One of those early B films that seemed rushed. Tim McCoy is a good cowboy but not so hot as a cop; he&#39;s also poorly cast, almost 20 years older than his love interest (Perils Of Pauline actress. Evalyn Knapp). The best part is seeing Ward Bond, not exactly young here at 30 but finally earning a billing after years of movies where he went mostly uncredited. My issue is McCoy finally breaking the case by asking the Chief to suspend him from the force so he can beat critical information out of one of the bad guys. It would be worse if the fight scene wasn&#39;t so laughable.

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Police Car 17

Standard crime story saved by outstanding location shooting.

Another dandy non-western for Tim McCoy

Sends a bad message, and the casting was a stretch

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