Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)

Original title

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

Directed by

Arnold Laven

Genre

crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An assistant district attorney investigates a murder on the New York waterfront. He faces corruption that goes all the way up to his own office.

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What happens

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Arnold Laven and starring Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea and Julie Adams. The film is a story of crime on New York's waterfront. It is based on the non-fiction book The Man Who Rocked the Boat, an autobiography by William Keating, played by Egan in the film. The book chronicles Keating's experiences as an assistant district attorney and as counsel to the New York City Anti-Crime Committee. In the portion of the book depicted in the film, Keating pursued a murder prosecution for a waterfront hit despite widespread corruption that stretched all the way into the district attorney's office. The title comes from the Richard Rodgers ballet of the same name, which was featured in the 1936 play On Your Toes. The plot line of the movie has no relation to the play, but the composition by Rodgers is indeed heard in the film, in an adaptation by Herschel Burke Gilbert (under the direction of music supervisor Joseph Gershenson) that was praised as "magnificent". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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