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New York City | Film Noir
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When the Lipstick Killer is being chased through the city streets, a police car carrying Dana Andrews (as news reporter Edward Mobley) drives past a movie theater where Andrews' name is visible on the marquee.
According to film noir historian Eddie Muller in the commentary for this film, Dana Andrews was drunk during the entire production. (Andrews himself admitted that he was an alcoholic during the 1950s.) Ironically, his character is drunk throughout half the film.
The movie was based on a real murder case that took place in 1946. In that year William Heirens killed three women and left a message scrawled in lipstick on a bathroom mirror after the second murder. In the message, he urged the police to catch him before he killed again. Because of this, the press dubbed him "The Lipstick Killer".
The sequence depicting the New York subway was filmed in the Pacific Electric Belmont trolley tunnel under downtown Los Angeles. Inter-urban streetcars doubled for the larger New York subway trains.
While Sandra White is only in the opening shot (The beautiful single woman attacked by the killer.), her image adorns the poster artwork and subsequent VHS, DVD, and Blu Ray covers: screaming while facing a dark hand outlined in sizzling red.
"Ed Mobely: You know, you have very nice legs. Nancy Liggett: Aren't you sweet. Ed Mobely: Nice stockings too. What holds your stockings up? Nancy Liggett: There's a lot your mother should have told you. Ed Mobely: I didn't ask my mother. I asked you."
"Ed Mobely: [as he's holding Nancy tight in her apartment's doorway] I should have a permit. Nancy Liggett: To kiss me? Ed Mobely: Hmm... an explorer's permit. Nancy Liggett: Do explorers have to have permits? Ed Mobely: They should have, especially when they're headed for uncharted territory. [Nancy pushes away from Ed and glares at him] Ed Mobely: Forgive me angel, I know not what I say. Nancy Liggett: Goodnight, drunk."
