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A classic film noir about obsession and corruption, where a detective's pursuit of a gangster becomes entangled with his fixation on the criminal's girlfriend.
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
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