One of the darkest of detective antiheroes is Dana Andrews' Mark Dixon in Where the Sidewalk Ends. While trying to get information from a robbery suspect, Dixon inadvertently kills the man, then attempts to cover up the accidental slaying by making it look like a gangland murder. A romantic involvement with the daughter (Gene Tierney) of a circumstantial witness confounds both the situation and Dixon's murderous resolve. "Ben Hecht's film scripts in the late l940s replaced such grotesque figures as Tony Camonte in Scarface...with such noir everymen as Mark Dixon...a hero of questionable virtue and limited potency trying to react to a society of confused moral values...There is a common feeling of alienation and loneliness that molds these characters of Hecht's imagination." (Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Silver and Ward ed.)