He Walked By Night: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
He Walked By Night: Difference between revisions
[[Image:HWBN 9.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Police Officer holding his [[Thompson#M1A1 Thompson|M1A1 Thompson Sub Machine Gun]]]]
[[Image:HWBN 9.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Police Officer holding his [[Thompson#M1A1 Thompson|M1A1 Thompson Sub Machine Gun]]]]
==Thompson 1928A1==
==M1928 Thompson==
[[Image:M1928-A1 T.jpg|thumb|none|500px|M1928A1 Thompson - .45 ACP with 30-round box magazine.]]
[[Image:M1928.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1928 "Tommy Gun" or "Chicago typewriter" with 50-round drum magazine - .45 ACP, made famous through countless classic gangster movies.]]
[[Image:HWBN 10.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Police Officer holding his [[Thompson#M1928/M1928A1 Thompson|M1928A1 Thompson Sub Machine Gun]]]]
[[Image:HWBN 10.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Police Officer holding his [[Thompson#M1928/M1928A1 Thompson|M1928 Thompson Sub Machine Gun]]]]
[[Image:HWBN 12.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Police Officer holding a [[Thompson#M1928/M1928A1 Thompson|M1928A1 Thompson Sub Machine Gun]]]]
[[Image:HWBN 12.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Police Officer holding a [[Thompson#M1928/M1928A1 Thompson|M1928 Thompson Sub Machine Gun]]]]
[[Image:HWBN 13.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Police Officer firing his [[Thompson#M1928/M1928A1 Thompson|M1928A1 Thompson Sub Machine Gun]] at Roy Martin]]
[[Image:HWBN 13.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Police Officer firing his [[Thompson#M1928/M1928A1 Thompson|M1928 Thompson Sub Machine Gun]] at Roy Martin]]
==Winchester 1897 Shotgun==
==Winchester 1897 Shotgun==
Latest revision as of 15:54, 13 May 2018
He Walked By Night was filmed in 1948 and was based on a real life criminal Erwin Walker (1917-2008). Richard Basehart plays Roy Martin a brilliant thief and sociopath who eludes the police by listening to their radio communications. He alters his modus operandi with each successive crime, leading the police to believe that multiple criminals are at work. When he murders a police officer it's the beginning of the end for Roy Martin.The film, shot in semidocumentary tone, was loosely based on newspaper accounts of the real-life actions of Erwin "Machine-Gun" Walker, a former Glendale, California police department employee and World War II veteran who unleashed a crime spree of burglaries, robberies, and shootouts in the Los Angeles area during 1945 and 1946. Alfred Werker has director credit, but there were problems during the production and Anthony Mann was brought in to finish the movie after Werker was fired.