| Force Of Evil | |||||
| Republic Pictures (1949) | |||||
| Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | |||||
|
In Collection
#4857 |
|||||
|
0*
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
| John Garfield | Joe Morse | |
| Marie Windsor | Edna Tucker | |
| Beatrice Pearson | Doris Lowry | |
| Thomas Gomez | Leo Morse | |
| Howland Chamberlain | Freddie Bauer | |
| Roy Roberts | Ben Tucker | |
| Paul Fix | Bill Ficco | |
| Stanley Prager | Wally | |
| Barry Kelley | Det. Egan | |
| Paul McVey | Hobe Wheelock | |
| Murray Alper | Comptroller | |
| Jessie Arnold | Sorter | |
| Sam Ash | Man | |
| Georgia Backus | Sylvia Morse | |
| Margaret Bert | Sorter | |
| Larry J. Blake | Detective | |
| Mildred Boyd | Mother | |
| Beau Bridges | Frankie Tucker | |
| Ralph Brooks | Attorney |
| Director |
|
||
| Producer | Bob Roberts
|
||
| Writer | Abraham Polonsky
Ira Wolfert |
||
| Cinematography | George Barnes
|
||
| Musician | David Raksin
|
|
Directed by Abraham Polonsky, Force of Evil was chosen for the 1994 National Film Registry Permanent Archive Collection because of its cultural, historical and aesthetic significance. John Garfield has never had it so good. The smart young Wall Street lawyer joins a get-rich-quick scheme of a mob boss who plans on bankrupting the city's small-time numbers racketeers and consolidating their businesses . However, when Garfield discovers he must choose between his loyalty to the ruthless racket kingpin or his family, the true force of evil is revealed. |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Features
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||