Force of Evil
“Sensational Story Of a Numbers King Whose Number Was Up!”
19501h 19mCrime · Drama
Released
August 24, 1950
TMDB Score
66% match · 148 votes
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About the Movie
Synopsis
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
DirectorAbraham Polonsky
- Released
- August 24, 1950
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Box office
- $1.2M
- Studios
- Roberts Pictures Inc., Enterprise Productions
Top Billed Cast
John Garfield
Joe Morse
Thomas Gomez
Leo Morse
Marie Windsor
Edna Tucker
Howland Chamberlain
Freddie Bauer
Roy Roberts
Ben Tucker
Paul Fix
Bill Ficco
Stanley Prager
Wally
Barry Kelley
Detective Egan
Paul McVey
Hobe Wheelock
Beatrice Pearson
Doris Lowry
Arthur O'Connell
Link Hall (uncredited)
Georgia Backus
Sylvia Morse (uncredited)
Margaret Bert
Sorter (uncredited)
Estelle Etterre
Secretary #4 (uncredited)
Sherry Hall
Sorter (uncredited)
Paul Frees
Elevator operator
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