Chain of Evidence (film)

{{Short description|Film directed by Paul Landres}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Chain of Evidence | image =Chain of Evidence (film).jpg | caption = | director = Paul Landres | producer = Ben Schwalb | writer = Elwood Ullman | starring = Bill Elliott <br> Jimmy Lydon <br> Don Haggerty | music = Marlin Skiles | cinematography = Harry Neumann | editing = Neil Brunnenkant | studio = Allied Artists | distributor = Allied Artists | released = {{Film date|1957|01|06}} | runtime = 64 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Chain of Evidence''''' is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Paul Landres and starring Bill Elliott, Jimmy Lydon and Don Haggerty.<ref>Parish & Pitts p.217</ref> It was the fourth in a series of five films featuring Elliott as a detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office made by Allied Artists.

==Plot== {{no plot|date=June 2022}}

==Cast== * Bill Elliott as Lt. Andy Doyle * Jimmy Lydon as Steve Nordstrom * Don Haggerty as Sgt. Mike Duncan * Claudia Barrett as Harriet Owens * Tina Carver as Claire Ramsey * Ross Elliott as Bob Bradfield * Meg Randall as Polly Gunther * Timothy Carey as Carl Fowler * John Bleifer as Jake Habermann * Dabbs Greer as Dr. Ainsley * John Close as Deputy

==See also== *''Dial Red O'' (1955) *''Sudden Danger'' (1955) *''Calling Homicide'' (1956) *''Footsteps in the Night'' (1957) *List of American films of 1957

==References== <references/>

==Bibliography== * James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. ''Film directors: a guide to their American films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0050241}}

Category:1957 films Category:1957 crime films Category:American crime films Category:Films directed by Paul Landres Category:Allied Artists films Category:1957 English-language films Category:1957 American films Category:Films scored by Marlin Skiles Category:English-language crime films Category:American black-and-white films