Broderick Crawford stars as top crime syndicate boss Charlie Lupo.
Lupo hires a hitman from Chicago named Nick Magellan (Richard Conte) to get rid of an enemy, which Nick does without feeling or empathy.
Nick becomes Charlie's right hand man and both form a tight bond. However, Charlie's daughter Kathy (Anne Bancroft) is fed up with her family and thier ties to the criminal underworld.
It's slowly destroying her life and that of her father and his mother played by Celia Lovsky. Once this movie starts, it never lets up as one scene just smoothly flows into another.
The conclusion has Charlie trying to flee New York for Florida as the Government catches up to him, and the shocking turn of events involving Kathy, Nick and an unknown new hitman. I hesitate to say too much and give anything away, because this film actually works on every level.
This is nothing but classic film noir that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! The rest of the stellar cast includes Marilyn Maxwell, J. Carrol Naish, Onslow Stevend, Barry Kelley, Mike Mazurki, Nestor Paiva, and Ian Keith.
If you get a chance seek this one out and watch it. It's bleak, dark, moody and one hundred percent entertaining, as movies should be.
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