The Mob (film)

The Mob is a 1951 film noir crime thriller film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Broderick Crawford as a hardnosed cop who infiltrates the Mob in order to bust their illegal dockyard activities. The actor Charles Bronson makes one of his first film appearances as a longshoreman and was uncredited.

Damico could lose his job, but instead hes given the chance to redeem himself hes sent undercover and given a new identity as New Orleans toughguy Tim Flynn, who insinuates himself onto the New York waterfront when he arrives on ship. He manages to hook up with union thug Joe Castro Ernest Borgnine and his strongarm man Gunner Neville Brand, who try to frame him for a murder that also gets a potential stoolie Culio Frank DeKova out of the way and that hooks Damico up with crooked police sergeant Bennion Walter Klavun who arrests him. After following one blind alley involving a federal agent Thomas Clancy Richard Kiley working as a longshoreman, Damico manages to get an intro to Blackie Clegg Matt Crowley.Spencer Selby, in his book Dark City The Film Noir, calls The Mob About as close as noir ever came to resurrecting the 1930s gangster film.........

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