“Police Rookie” is a 1940 American film directed by Sam Newfield for Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). It was PRC’s first release. The film is also known as “I Take This Oath” and is about the trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
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Directed by Sam Newfield, produced by Sigmund Neufeld, written by George Bricker, story by William A. Ullman Jr., starring Gordon Jones as Steve Hanagan, Joyce Compton as Betty Casey, Craig Reynolds as Joe Kelly, J. Farrell MacDonald as Insp. Tim Ryan
Veda Ann Borg as Flo, Mary Gordon as Mrs. Eileen Hanagan, Robert Homans as Mike Hanagan, Sam Flint as Uncle Jim Kelly, Guy Usher as Capt. Casey Brooks Benedict as Burly, Edward Peil, Sr. as Sergeant Riley and Budd Buster as Jones
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Source: “I Take This Oath” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 12 November 2013. Web. 23 December 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Rookie.
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Thank you, nice movie.
Another thank you for the upload, and have a very, merry Christmas!
Thanks very much for sharing this new addition with the viewing public,greatly appreciated. Thanks again!
Good old fashion cop drama from the 1940s. I enjoy the old B&W movies especially the film noir ones that had style and imagination.
Thanks, I enjoyed it.
Luckily in today's America – the Ends do not justify the Means as they do in this movie. I can think of several laws the police and the hero broke obtaining evidence illegally and resulting in two deaths.
Thank you very much for the entertainment! This is when movies were movies!
…Characters two-dimensional, acting mediocre to fair… Sorry, but I LOVE these old movies!!
lmao, what ridiculous acting….
How many rounds were fired, without anybody being hit!? Goodness!
Don't see it mentioned by anyone here, but Gordon Jones, the Police Rookie here is also the guy who played Mike the Cop on the Abbott & Costello TV shows. I guess this is where he started his police career.
A nice "follow that car!" type of film.
Get the coffee yourself
Let me see now, me own mother was a mere 12 when the movie was made, I need maybe my grandmother's help in the slang? I don't know what all the words mean! But, I love the movie in it's simplicity.
My Mom was raised in an Irish neighborhood in Philadelphia back in the 20s and 30s. All the husbands/fathers were either cops, fireman or they worked on the docks (most people don't know it, but Philadelphia has a port facility). My maternal grandfather was a fireman and his brother was a cop. Both spoke with thick Irish brogues. I can still hear my Grand-father admonishing my brother one day in his Irish accent: "Now you listen to me, boyo, I was a feer-mahn fer turty-feev years….". Funny story: Sometime in the late 30s or 40s, my Mother's uncle, Ed, had risen through the ranks of the Philadelphia PD from beat cop to inspector of detectives. One night, at a formal dinner held for the Governor of Pennsylvania, Uncle Ed accused the Governor in front of news reporters of having ties with the Irish mob and in particular Joe Kennedy (President Kennedy's father), who was a bootlegger and rum-runner doing prohibition (Uncle Ed's men used to chase Kennedy's men up and down the Delaware and Schuykill Rivers during Prohibition). The next day, Uncle Ed found himself demoted to sergeant and on River Patrol duty.
old ones are best
Gordon Jones in the lead here…12 years later would become famous for his role as "Mike the Cop"…on the classic Abbott &Costello tv program, which ran 2 seasons, and incorporated decades worth of classic bits which the boys performed all over the country…
stopbitching its a movie not reality.
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1940 s
OK she found the book in her husband pocket after the accident. Don't think so not the way that building wen't up in flames
I take this oath is the other name. but why is it named police rookie. so the first is the right one. why
I really do get in to these classics. my meaningless opinion, they're different than now days (obviously), but, they keep me interested as movies now do. Classics let me enjoy more of what now mvs don't have.. CLASS!