Routine Crime Detection
"THE portentousness of the Dragnet theme (Tumty tum Tum, tee TUM) suggests melodrama, but speedily gives way to the steady downbeat of Dragnet’s main preoccupation-routine crime detection. The presentation of each programme suggests the meticulous setting out of an experiment in a schoolboy’s science notebook, with aim, preparation, etc., neatly listed, but in spite of repetition Your Aim-Get ’Em! never fails to touch the conscience. The incidents themselves are sordid and usually banal, the characters have been heard in too many films to be entirely convincing, and the sounds on which so much of the drama depends-the .echoing footsteps, ringing telephones, screeching tyreshave almost become the prerogatives of fiction. But any resemblance to a Bclass thriller is entirely coincidental, and these trappings cannot disguise the rather impressive bulk of the thing, the impression it gives of the weight, patience and technical advantages of the
forces of crime detection.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 11
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153Routine Crime Detection New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 11
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