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Corruption | Gangster
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First feature film appearance of Carolyn Jones. Her character is a caricature of Bugsy Siegel's moll Virginia Hill who testified before an anti-crime committee.
The setting, including street and business names and the Angel's Flight funicular railway, is clearly Los Angeles, but the local TV station covering the crime hearings, WRRT, has call letters commencing with the letter "W" that only would be assigned to a station east of the Mississippi. In fact, those call letters were later assigned to a station in Waterbury, CT. UPDATE: It is stated in the movie itself by the John Conroy character that it takes place in a Midwestern city.
According to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, Alan Ladd was to star in this picture.
Inspired by the U.S. Senate's Committee to Investigate Organized Crime, also known as the Kefauver Committee, headed by Senator Estes Kefauver, which was active 1950 to 1951.
William Holden and Neville Brand co-starred in this film. They would reunite the following year in Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 (1953), with Holden in his Oscar-winning performance as Sgt. J.J. Sefton and Brand as the short tempered yet dedicated fellow POW Duke who constantly needles Sefton.
"Amanda Waycross: Isn't it a tragic thing if the people all over this nation can be told that a man like Eichelberger can tear a man like you apart with his dirty fingers. What are we coming to Johnny, when a man like that can do this to all of us?"
"[last lines] John Conroy: [to Mandy about Jerry] Sometimes someone has to pay an exorbitant price to uphold the majesty of the law. He said so himself. [solemnly, John and Mandy walk off down the gymnasium hallway together]"
