Victor McLaglen was a British-American film actor. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made seven films with John Ford and John Wayne. McLaglen won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.
This is a feature film concept re-imagining the foundations of the 1968-1975 cop show, but rolled back to a time frame allowing a film noir premier circa 1954 if we were around to produce it then.