Force of Evil
Sensational Story Of a Numbers King Whose Number Was Up!
Country
Budget
$0
Box office
$1 165 000
Director
Actors
John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Howland Chamberlain, Roy Roberts, Paul Fix, Stanley Prager, Barry Kelley, Paul McVey, Beatrice Pearson
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Bob Roberts
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Art Seid
Whole Team (14)
Whole Team (14)
Short description
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
What's left behind the scenes
- Robert Aldrich is credited as assistant director, and later made his own contribution to the noir genre ("Kiss Me Deadly").
- In 1951, director Abraham Polonsky was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee after refusing to confirm or deny allegations of membership in the Communist Party USA. He was not able to direct his next film until 1968.
- Robert Aldrich is listed as the assistant director in the credits; he later contributed to the noir genre with 'Kiss Me Deadly'.
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