Murder, Inc. (film)

Murder, Inc. is a 1960 American gangster film starring Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan, Peter Falk, and Simon Oakland. The Cinemascope movie was directed by Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was based on the true story of Murder Inc., a Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s.

Abe Reles Peter Falk and Bug Workman Warren Finnerty, two killers from Brooklyns Brownsville district, meet in the Garment District to meet with Louis Lepke Buchalter, kingpin of an organized crime mob, who hires them as the syndicates hit men.Their first job is to kill Walter Sage Morey Amsterdam, a Catskill resort owner who has been holding back slot machine profits from Lepke. To get close to Sage, Reles forces singer Joey Collins Stuart Whitman, an old crony of Sage who owes Reles money, to help him. Reles and his henchman kill Sage. Reles visits Joey and threatens to kill him and his dancer wife Eadie May Britt if they tell anyone about the murder. Eadie throws Reles out. Reles later returns to the apartment when Joey is gone and brutally rapes her. Despite her urging Joey refuses to run away, and this causes him and Eadie to split up. ........

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