"Vice Squad" starts out just fine with a promise of noir-ish crime action but quickly descends into just another so-so cop procedural melodrama. Edward G. Robinson does his best with the poor script but his character is completely unlikeable. Paulette Goddard appears as the proprietor of an "escort service", which is a 50's euphemism for a bordello and turns in a credible performance. You'll have some fun spotting the various 40's/50's character actors that make up the rest of the cast. My biggest problem with this film is the incredibly high-handed antics of the police, who apparently never heard of the US Constitution. They consistently violate just about every article in the Bill of Rights in their pursuit of a cop killer. Poor old eyewitness Porter Hall is harassed and framed on the orders of Eddie G. When the cop killer (Ed Binns) is finally cornered, the cops save the taxpayers the cost of a trial by the simple expedient of filling him full of lead. View at your own risk!
Review of Vice Squad
