Dragnet (1954)
Directed by Jack Webb
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.
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What critics compared Dragnet to
Originally a 1930 radio serial and a 1960s TV show, the real Green Hornet was the straightest of the straight men, an enigma in fedora and trenchcoat who made Dragnet’s Jack Webb (“Just the facts, ma’am”) seem a party animal in comparison.
"L.A. Confidential" even contains a parody of a 1950s television cop show, Jack Webb's "Dragnet," that's fresher than most of "Cop Land."
Among those disciplined are Sergeant Bud White (a beefy and brush-cut Russell Crowe in a crisp Jack Webb likeness), a brutish shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later type with a thing for wife beaters, and "Hollywood Jack" Vincennes (a suavely cynical Kevin Spacey, whose light touch gives L.A. much of its oomph), a "celebrity cop" who serves as technical adviser to a Dragnet-like TV show -- when he's not setting up dope and sex busts of movie stars for scandal-sheet editor Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito doing gleeful smarm).