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Police Photo Composite Machine


Saw this movie as a little kid on a local NY city station (probably WOR). I remember how cheesy it was even back then. I haven't seen it since but one thing I remember being cool was the segment where the police used that photo machine thing to identify Chuck Connors face from the eye witness. This was before computers. It was like a slide projector where you could swap out different eyes, noses,mouths, etc., and make different faces. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

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It was cool in theory, just not very realistic. ;)

How the crap did it have all the exact Rifleman components? Then they flipped through each set and landed on each one by like the second or third try. It even had the exact hairdo. It would make sense if they already had suspects and were using it like a lineup to see if a witness could pick all the right parts, but having all the exact choices by coincidence is pretty far fetched. Even with technology from decades later, the composites always come out looking like aliens. Worse yet, what kind of weirdo remembers every single facial detail of some guy they walked passed in a hospital?

And no mention whatsoever of the most obvious identifying feature-

"Look for a guy that's eight feet tall."

"What did he look like?"

"What difference does it make... he's EIGHT FEET TALL."

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My thoughts exactly. The rapist describes a head shape, eyes, nose, mouth and suddenly a photograph of Chuck Connors appears. Meanwhile, he never mentions blonde hair, glasses, or, most glaringly, the fact that he was 6'6. I thought the movie was watchable until this point in the movie. From the moment they leave the firing range until the very end, it was laughably bad.

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