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Force of Evil

The only film Abraham Polonsky was able to direct before he fell afoul of McCarthyite witch hunters (the only one until Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, two decades later), a morality play against a background of the numbers racket. The tough-guy language and ambience have rich veins of poetry in them, and John Garfield has one of his better roles as a mob mouthpiece with a rediscovered conscience. Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor. 1948.

Reader Rating: StarStarStarStar
MPAA Rating: PG

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