Force of Evil
Sensational Story Of a Numbers King Whose Number Was Up!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 31, 2012
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | John Garfield | |
| Performer: | Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Howland Chamberlain, Roy Roberts, Paul McVey & Tim Ryan | |
| Directed by | Abraham Polonsky | |
| Edited by | Walter Thompson & Arthur Seidel | |
| Screenwriting by | Abraham Polonsky & Ira Wolfert | |
| Composition by | David Raksin | |
| Story by | Ira Wolfert | |
| Produced by | Bob Roberts | |
| Director of Photography: | George Barnes |
Entertainment Reviews:
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A poetic, terse, beautifully exact, and highly personal re-creation of the American underworld, with an unpunctuated Joycean screenplay by Polonsky that is perhaps unique in the American cinema.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4.5/5 --
At its best, Force achieves a style at once brutal and poetic, documentarian and noir.
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TV Guide
Force of Evil is a masterpiece, usually lumped in with films noir of the period, but unique.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A thinly-veiled outright damnation of capitalism and its merger-heavy practices. Heavy-handed but quite intriguing and poetic.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 87/100 --
The film cleverly uses illicit numbers running as a metaphor for unethical business practices in post-war America
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Cinemania
Rating: A --
One of the major themed films of the '40s.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/5 --
Top notch Garfield vehicle
Kansas City Kansan
Product Description:
A lawyer gets caught in a three way squeeze between his racketeer boss, his racketeer brother, and the anti-crime tactics of a new prosecutor who would like to jail the entire lot. Based on the novel TUCKER'S PEOPLE by Ira Wolfert. Directorial debut for the later black-listed Polonsky.
Keywords:
Law / Lawyers
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Organized Crime
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Film Noir
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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Brothers
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Money
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 37,086
- UPC: 887090045308
- Shipping Weight: 0.18/lbs (approx)
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