Top billed cast

1. 

   John Garfield

   Joe Morse

2. 

   Thomas Gomez

   Leo Morse

3. 

   Marie Windsor

   Edna Tucker

4. 

   Howland Chamberlain

   Freddie Bauer

5. 

   Roy Roberts

   Ben Tucker

6. 

   Paul Fix

   Bill Ficco

7. 

   Stanley Prager

   Wally

8. 

   Barry Kelley

   Detective Egan

9. 

   Paul McVey

   Hobe Wheelock

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2014-03-11

Black sheep like to make everybody else look black.

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. Music is by David Raksin and cinematography by George Barnes. Plot finds Garfield as lawyer Joe Morse, who works for powerful gangster Ben Tucker (Roberts). Tucker has a plan to control all of the numbers rackets in New York, something that with the fix on the numbers up and coming for the 4th July, will see all o...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$1,165,000.00

Keywords

• new york city
• gangster
• film noir
• lawyer
• numbers racket
• brother brother relationship