Murder, Inc. (1960)

Directed by

Stuart Rosenberg

Genre

drama film, crime film, thriller film, gangster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1960 film tells the story of a Brooklyn gang that carried out murders for hire in the 1930s. It focuses on a vicious thug who leads the group and terrorizes his rivals. The movie follows the gang's operations and the law's efforts to stop them.

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What happens

Murder, Inc. is a 1960 American gangster film starring Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan and Peter Falk. Filmed in Cinemascope and directed by Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg, the film was based on the true story of Murder, Inc., a Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s. Falk was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his first major feature role as Abe Reles, a vicious thug who led the Murder, Inc. gang and was believed to have committed 30 murders, for which he was never prosecuted. In his 2006 autobiography Just One More Thing, Falk said that Murder, Inc. launched his career. This was the first film directed by Rosenberg, who later won acclaim for Cool Hand Luke (1967), and it launched Stuart Whitman's career as a leading man. A highly fictionalized film on the same basic events titled The Enforcer (1951), starring Humphrey Bogart, was released in the United Kingdom with the title Murder, Inc. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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