The Mob (film)

The Mob

Still from film with Crawford in center
Directed by Robert Parrish
Produced by Jerry Bresler
Written by Ferguson Findley (novel Waterfront)
William Bowers
Starring Broderick Crawford
Betty Buehler
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) September 7, 1951 premiere
Running time 87 min
Language English

The Mob is a 1951 crime thriller film, considered film noir, starring Broderick Crawford as a hard-nosed cop who infiltrates the Mob in order to bust their illegal dockyard activities. Actor Charles Bronson makes one of his first film appearances as a longshoreman. He was uncredited.

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Critical reaction

Spencer Selby, in the book Dark City: The Film Noir, calls The Mob: "About as close as noir ever came to resurrecting the 1930s gangster film." [1]

Film Noir: The Encyclopedia Reference to the American style notes "Crawford takes the simple role of Johnny Damico and converts it into a noir characterization of toughness and vulgarity." [2]

Featured cast

Actor Role
Broderick Crawford Johnny Damico
Betty Buehler Mary Kiernan
Richard Kiley Thomas Clancy
Otto Hulett Police Lt. Banks
Matt Crowley Smoothie, Bartender
Neville Brand Gunner, Castro henchman
Ernest Borgnine Joe Castro
Jean Alexander Doris Clancy

References

  1. ^ Spencer Selby (1984). Dark City:The Film Noir. McFarland Classics. ISBN 0-7864-0478-7. 
  2. ^ Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward (1992). Film Noir An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style. The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5. 

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