A nice thriller in semi-documentary style with Noir elements , action , tense, and really suspenseful . This story is adapted from cases actually happened . A narcotics gang is smuggling large quantities of drugs into New York via the port from the S. S. Florentine and other facilities . Then a female narcotics smuggler decides to play ball with the police and deliver her former colleagues to them , but things go wrong . Two agents (Scott Brady , Richard Rober) go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband , then an agent (Rober) poses as a band member in order to inflitrate the mob and get the goods on them .No crime too vicious ... no justice too swift for the Merchants of Death who lurk in its shadows !
A semi-documentary flick allied to an intelligent mystery plot and made with the full cooperation of real officers of the law by using advanced techniques that have become slightly old hat . This is one of a number of semidocumentary movies dealing with all levels of vice that filled the screens of post-world war II America , being the main representation : ¨The House on 92nd Street¨ by Henry Hathaway . It is taut , intricate , and intriguing , resulting in a superb climax aboard a boat in which occurs a furious and violent gun battle . It stills works well enough , even though some flaws , gaps and failures . The scenes in this picture were photographed in the localities of the incidents depicted , New York and their vicinities, wherever possible, in the actual place the original incident occurred . The low-key interpretations contribuye effectively to the sense of actuality despite some clumsy mistakes . Actors give uniformly acceptable acting, such as : Scott Brady as the cop eager to make the arrest while protecting his lovely informant , as well as the unknown and early deceased by accident Richard Rober who plays the undercover cop disguising as a delinquent to chase the gang members , in addition brief interpretation by novice Neville Brand and special mention for Yul Brinner - with hair- in his film debut , giving a strange but adequate acting .
The motion picture was well directed by Laslo Benedek , dealing with an usual subject for Benedek to direct . He made important and decent films , such as : ¨Death of a Salesman¨ , ¨The kissing bandit , ¨Daring game¨ , ¨Assault on Agathon¨ , ¨The Night Visitor¨, ¨Bengala Rifles¨, ¨Song of Russia¨ and his biggest hit : ¨The Wild ones¨, along with various TV episodes . Benedek drew out convincing, evocative performances from Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell , Fredric March , Mildred Dunnock and , of course , Marlon Brando and Rock Hudson . Rating : 6.5/10 . Acceptable and passable film . The flick will appeal to Noir Films fans .
A semi-documentary flick allied to an intelligent mystery plot and made with the full cooperation of real officers of the law by using advanced techniques that have become slightly old hat . This is one of a number of semidocumentary movies dealing with all levels of vice that filled the screens of post-world war II America , being the main representation : ¨The House on 92nd Street¨ by Henry Hathaway . It is taut , intricate , and intriguing , resulting in a superb climax aboard a boat in which occurs a furious and violent gun battle . It stills works well enough , even though some flaws , gaps and failures . The scenes in this picture were photographed in the localities of the incidents depicted , New York and their vicinities, wherever possible, in the actual place the original incident occurred . The low-key interpretations contribuye effectively to the sense of actuality despite some clumsy mistakes . Actors give uniformly acceptable acting, such as : Scott Brady as the cop eager to make the arrest while protecting his lovely informant , as well as the unknown and early deceased by accident Richard Rober who plays the undercover cop disguising as a delinquent to chase the gang members , in addition brief interpretation by novice Neville Brand and special mention for Yul Brinner - with hair- in his film debut , giving a strange but adequate acting .
The motion picture was well directed by Laslo Benedek , dealing with an usual subject for Benedek to direct . He made important and decent films , such as : ¨Death of a Salesman¨ , ¨The kissing bandit , ¨Daring game¨ , ¨Assault on Agathon¨ , ¨The Night Visitor¨, ¨Bengala Rifles¨, ¨Song of Russia¨ and his biggest hit : ¨The Wild ones¨, along with various TV episodes . Benedek drew out convincing, evocative performances from Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell , Fredric March , Mildred Dunnock and , of course , Marlon Brando and Rock Hudson . Rating : 6.5/10 . Acceptable and passable film . The flick will appeal to Noir Films fans .