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Force of Evil

Sensational Story Of a Numbers King Whose Number Was Up!

1950 · NR · 1h 19m

Directed by Abraham Polonsky

6.7

TMDB audience score
149 votes, out of 10

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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.

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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

  • Jack Overman
    Juice (uncredited)

  • Tim Ryan
    Johnson