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dragnet

[drag-net] / ˈdrægˌnɛt /
NOUN
manhunt
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STRONG


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He sold his first script, The House in the Sea, in 1953 and it was filmed as Highway Dragnet the following year with Corman being credited as co-producer.

From BBC • May 12, 2024

Knowing what we know now, though, that "Dragnet" monologue is shaded in levels of bleak irony.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2024

The owner, Joy Ghigliotti, takes pride in selling hard-to-find items like a life-size Yoda that was part of a Pepsi promotion and a Dragnet board game from 1955.

From New York Times • May 5, 2022

Hesseman played a hippie in one of his first roles, on "Dragnet," in 1967, and also in the 1968 Richard Lester film "Petulia."

From Fox News • Jan. 31, 2022

By rights, the 1987 Tom Hanks/Dan Aykroyd parody should have killed Dragnet forever.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2017




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