"According to Martin Scorsese nobody portrayed guilt on the American screen better than John Garfield in Abraham Polonsky's hard-hitting Force of Evil (1948). As Joe Morse, 'a crooked little lawyer,' Garfield has reason to feel guilty. He's in league with Ben Tucker, a former beer-runner, who's planning to takeover the numbers racket by fixing the old liberty number, 776, to fall on July 4th. After 776 hits, the big Tucker corporation will move in and consolidate the small numbers banks that can't pay off their debts and form a monopoly."
Images Journal, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twenty Four Frames, amazon, Noir of the Week
No comments:
Post a Comment