Force of Evil (1950)
Sensational Story Of a Numbers King Whose Number Was Up!
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.
- Date of release
- 1950-08-24
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (148)
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Abraham Polonsky
Casting
- 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)
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