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The Turning Point is a 1952 American film noir crime film directed by William Dieterle and starring William Holden, Edmond O'Brien and Alexis Smith. It was inspired by the Kefauver Committee's hearings dealing with organized crime. Plot.
The Turning Point: Directed by William Dieterle. With William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith, Tom Tully. Jerry McKibbon is a tough, no nonsense reporter, mentoring special prosecutor John Conroy in routing out corrupt officials in the city, which may even include Conroy's own police detective father as a suspect.
Jun 22, 2023 · The Turning Point (1952) by William Dieterle. Publication date 1952-11-14 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics The Turning Point (1952) Language English Item Size 515351367. Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is ...
Prosecutor John Conroy (Edmond O'Brien) is determined to bring down organized crime in his Midwestern town. He looks to his father, Matt (Tom Tully), a police officer, for help, but Matt refuses.
The Turning Point (1952) is a corporate crime prosecution crooked cop journalism and media managerial film noir starring Edmond O'Brien and Joseph Cotten, as a special prosecutor and a journalist — respectively — breaking a crime syndicate in downtown Los Angeles.
The Turning Point (1952) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more... Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. ... The Turning Point. Edit. Summaries. Jerry McKibbon is a tough, no nonsense reporter, mentoring special prosecutor John ...
Feb 5, 2022 · William Dieterle directed The Turning Point, a film noir starring William Holden, Edmond O’Brien and Alexis Smith, inspired by the Kefauver Committee’s hearings about organized crime. The Turning Point; ... Release date: November 14, 1952 (New York) Running time: 85 minutes.
The working title of this film was This Is Dynamite.Although a March 1950 Hollywood Reporter news item announced that Paramount had purchased a "forthcoming novel" by Horace McCoy, titled This Is Dynamite, the Screen Achievements Bulletin lists McCoy's story as unpublished. No evidence that the story was ever published has been found. As noted in reviews, the story was inspired by the U.S ...
In William Dieterle’s The Turning Point, childhood friends Jerry McKibbon (William Holden), a journalist, and John Conroy (Edmond O’Brien), a district attorney, are both investigating a crime syndicate run by mob boss Neil Eichelberger (Ed Begley).Things get complicated when McKibbon (1) discovers that Conroy’s policeman father (Tom Tully) might be working with the mob, and (2) falls in ...
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl ...
