The Lineup (1958)

Slick but tough crime thriller from Don Siegel focusing on a drug smuggling ring, whose modus operandi involves planting trinkets stuffed with heroin on unsuspecting tourists. The film gets off to a great start as the police begin to investigate a botched pickup. From…

Slig001

The Lineup is about 60% bland, formulaic police procedural, 40% strikingly original crime story, and 100% kickass San Francisco locations. Needless to say, the 40% that's interesting (well, that and the location stuff) makes sitting through the rest of it worth it. The…

sakana1

Great opening. This is about heroin smuggling by innocent travelers returning from the Orient, and the two guys (Eli Wallach and Robert Keith with Richard Jaeckel as the driver) assigned to retrieve said travelers of their statue or whatever it is hidden in. And the cops…

RetroHound

You gotta give it to Tubi. Sure, they're owned by Fox and their new logo leaves something to be desired, but where else can you watch a surprisingly decent-looking print of the 1958 Don Siegel effort "The Lineup" online? Nowhere, that's where. And I'm so glad I made the…

HKFanatic

"When you live outside the law, you have to eliminate dishonesty." A real humdinger of a pick for TCM's Noir Alley this weekend, the 87-minute crime drama The Lineup has many strengths to recommend it: fantastic performances by Eli Wallach and Robert Keith as a pair of…

theironcupcake

What an experience seeing Eli Wallach’s face on Blu-Ray - every pore perfectly visible.

Will Sloan

To be honest, I am a little disappointed by “The Lineup. It’s not a bad movie but from a late Film Noir from Don Siegel starring the great and in this case young Eli Wallach I was hoping/expecting a little more. The final stretch is really exciting with a lot of tension.…

Gregor Kreyca

This is an odd hybrid of a film. It feels like two different films braided together. A TV police procedural featuring a couple of earnest “just the facts, ma’m” detectives on the beat trying to catch a ring of heroin smugglers The second, a daylight Noir staring a suited…

Channing Pomeroy

“He pushed me too far!” The Lineup, a popular San Francisco-set 1954-1960 TV series, became one of the first shows to have a big-screen counterpart with Don Siegel’s 1958 film version. The result is somewhat frustrating with good and less good components at war with…

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