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Force of Evil is a 1948 American film noir starring John Garfield and directed by Abraham Polonsky. It was adapted by Polonsky and Ira Wolfert from Wolfert's novel Tucker's People. Polonsky had been a screenwriter for the boxing film Body and Soul (1947), in which Garfield had also played the male lead.
Force of Evil: Directed by Abraham Polonsky. With John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor. An unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.
Aug 30, 2021 · Force of Evil is a 1948 American crime FILM NOlR directed by Abraham Polonsky, who was previously known as a screenwriter for the boxing film Body and Soul (1947). Like Body and Soul, the film starred John Garfield.
A crooked lawyer tries to protect his numbers running brother from a ruthless crime boss.
Oct 15, 2022 · Set in New York City, "Force of Evil" combines and not entirely subtlely equates the numbers racket with banking and Wall Street. The film focuses on an ambitious young lawyer, Joe Morse, in an extraordinary performance by Garfield.
Joe Morse is a lawyer who crosses the line with his gangster client, Ben Tucker. Together, they've got a scheme to shut down all the illegal numbers banks in the city, and buy up the ones they want. Joe has an older brother, Leo, a man with heart trouble; and also runs an illegal numbers bank.
In New York City, unscrupulous lawyer Joe Morse (John Garfield), has the opportunity to make it big by teaming up with cutthroat gangster Ben Tucker (Roy Roberts) to consolidate the numbers racket...
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Force of Evil (1948) has it all . . . What's impressive about Force of Evil is the education one receives about the numbers game in New York in the 1940s. The racket adds a layer of complexity that makes Force of Evil seem way more sophisticated than it is — and this is a great trick.
The main protagonist - a shrewd, morally-bankrupt and ambitious Wall Street lawyer, took on a numbers-racket gangster-crook as his client with three goals, to make money for himself, to legalize and legitimize the numbers business, and to bankrupt all the competing racketeers and thereby force them to consolidate and be part of the racketeers ...
Mar 11, 2014 · Force of Evil is directed by Abraham Polonsky, who also adapts the screenplay from the Ira Wolfert novel Tucker's People. It stars John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Beatrice Pearson, Marie Windsor, Howard Chamberlain and Roy Roberts.
