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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This was surely Garfield's finest hour: he conveys brilliantly his character's ruthlessness and his sense of loss and yearning.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
A gripping thriller with a terrific performance by Garfield. It seems only the good peformers and directors got blacklisted (in this case Garfield and Polonsky).
Nitrate Online
Pearson's scenes with Garfield are among the most supercharged ever...
USA Today
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: 5/5 --
Top notch Garfield vehicle
Kansas City Kansan
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: 4.5/5 --
At its best, Force achieves a style at once brutal and poetic, documentarian and noir.
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TV Guide
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: 37,098
- UPC: 887090045308
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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