Force of Evil (1948)

Directors

Abraham Polonsky

Cast

John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Howland Chamberlain, Roy Roberts, Paul Fix, Stanley Prager, Barry Kelley

The story

thumb|right|Garfield and Pearson in Force of Evil Joe Morse is a lawyer working with powerful gangster Ben Tucker. Tucker plans to consolidate and gain control over the numbers racket in New York City. He plans to rig the winning number to 776, a number popularly played on the Fourth of July (a reference to 1776 and the Revolutionary War) - when the number hits, the ‘banks’ that run the racket will go broke, allowing Tucker to take over.

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