The Lineup is a 1958 American film

Film

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 version of the police procedural

Police procedural

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 series that ran on CBS

CBS

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 radio

Radio

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 from 1950 through 1953 and on CBS television

Television

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 from 1954 through 1960, directed by Don Siegel

Don Siegel

Donald Siegel was an influential American film director and producer. His name variously appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel.-Early life:...

. The film has a number of scenes shot on location in San Francisco during the late 1950s including shots of the Embarcadero Freeway (then still under construction) and the Sutro Baths

Sutro Baths

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Plot

An international drug-smuggling racket plants heroin on unsuspecting American tourists traveling in Asia, so that the dope traffic can pass through customs undetected. Two psychopathic killers (Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach

Eli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...

 and Robert Keith) and their driver Richard Jaeckel

Richard Jaeckel

Richard Hanley Jaeckel was an American actor of film and television.-Life and career:Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. A short, but tough guy, he played a variety of characters during his fifty years in movies & television and became one of Hollywood's best known character actors...

 then collect the contraband.

In the film Warner Anderson reprises his role as Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 Ben Guthrie from the TV series. However, Tom Tully's

Tom Tully

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 character, Inspector

Inspector

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 Matt Grebb, is replaced by Inspector Al Quine, played by Emile Meyer

Emile Meyer

Emile Meyer was an American actor usually known for tough, aggressive, authoritative characters in Hollywood films from the 1950s era, mostly in westerns or thrillers...

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Cast

• Eli Wallach
  Eli Wallach
  Eli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
  
   as Dancer
• Robert Keith as Julian
• Warner Anderson
  Warner Anderson
  Warner Anderson was an American actor. He had a small part in a film in 1915. He had supporting parts in several films through the years....
  
   as Lt. Ben Guthrie
• Richard Jaeckel
  Richard Jaeckel
  Richard Hanley Jaeckel was an American actor of film and television.-Life and career:Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. A short, but tough guy, he played a variety of characters during his fifty years in movies & television and became one of Hollywood's best known character actors...
  
   as Sandy McLain
• Mary LaRoche as Dorothy Bradshaw
• William Leslie as Larry Warner

In popular culture

The film contains the line, "When you live outside the law, you have to eliminate dishonesty," of which Jonathan Letham writes that "Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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heard it…, cleaned it up a little, and inserted it into 'Absolutely Sweet Marie'" (as "To live outside the law you must be honest.").