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User Reviews. I'm wondering if there could be anything more boring than an IRS agent. In "The Undercover Man" from 1949, Glenn Ford plays an IRS agent (I doubt any of them are that good-looking) on a case with his cronies, one played by James Whitmore in his film debut.
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The Undercover Man: Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. With Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, Barry Kelley. Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
- (1.4K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Joseph H. Lewis
- 1949-06
- Synopsis
- Picture 8/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 7/10
- Closing
Six tough, no-nonsense noirs from six of the genre’s toughest, no-nonsense directors: Budd Boetticher’s Escape in the Fog, in which a nurse and a war veteran take on Nazi spies in San Francisco; Joseph H Lewis’ The Undercover Man, inspired by the real-life case against Al Capone; Richard Quine’s Drive a Crooked Road, which finds Mickey Rooney movin...
The second disc in Indicator’s Columbia Noir #1 box set presents Joseph H. Lewis’ The Undercover Man, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of about 1.33:1 on a single-layer disc. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a new 2K restoration. Though I’m not 100% sure I’m venturing a guess this has been scanned from the orig...
The film’s 1.0 PCM monaural soundtrack is like most others in this set: serviceable, with no severe signs of damage (like cracks, pops, or drops) but also very little in the way of fidelity and range. Dialogue is clean and easy to hear, and the music does what it can.
Every disc in the set gets its own set of supplements, and each disc, surprisingly, starts things off with an audio commentary. For The Undercover Man Indicator has enlisted Tony Rayns, and though, and I was pleasantly surprised by his contribution. Like the previous film in this set, Escape in the Fog, I couldn't imagine this film warranting a lot...
A stronger disc than the previous one in terms of picture and supplements, the latter thanks to Rayns’ surprisingly passionate commentary track. BUY AT:
60% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 79% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings Determined Treasury Department investigator Frank Warren (Glenn Ford) goes after a ruthless mobster known as The Big Fellow.
- (5)
- Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Crime, Drama
Oct 5, 2020 · Expect flourishes of westerns, thriller and most intriguingly, neo-realism in this dark, gritty crime drama, lovingly remastered and included in PowerHouse Films’ upcoming boxset, Columbia Noir #1.
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8 ★★★★★ ratings (1%) ★★★★★. Popular reviews. More. Slig001 ★★★. Fairly unremarkable, but enjoyable, Colombia crime film, which focuses on the efforts of The Treasury Department to bring down a fictional Al Capone type character, referred to here as "The Big Fellow".
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A ccounting may not be a particularly exciting noir subject, but Joseph H. Lewis’s oddly titled The Undercover Man delivers the tension and tropes any noir lover can appreciate: snappy dialogue, police line-ups, oceans of fedoras, corruption and duplicity.
