Force of Evil (1948)
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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 12 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.6/10
Runtime: 82 mins
Synopsis: 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.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Howland Chamberlain
Director: Abraham Polonsky
Screenwriter: Abraham Polonsky, Ira Wolfert
Story: Ira Wolfert
Producer: Bob Roberts
Composer: David Raksin
Screenwriter: Abraham Polonsky, Ira Wolfert
Story: Ira Wolfert
Producer: Bob Roberts
Composer: David Raksin
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For all its unpleasant nature, it must be said that this film is a dynamic crime-and-punishment drama, brilliantly and broadly realized.
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08/08/06
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01/26/06
At its best, Force achieves a style at once brutal and poetic, documentarian and noir.
07/30/03
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).
06/07/03
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05/24/03
A thinly-veiled outright damnation of capitalism and its merger-heavy practices. Heavy-handed but quite intriguing and poetic.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
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