Этот фильм, основанный на реальной книге юриста Бертона Тёркуса, рассказывает о взлете и падении организованного преступного синдиката, известного как «Корпорация убийств».
Сосредоточение внимания на могущественном боссе Лепке.
During the very late 50s and early 60s, Hollywood made a bunch of real life crime biographies. I am pretty sure this was due to the success of "The Untouchables" on television and, like "The Untouchables", these movies kind of stuck to the facts....
I remember watching this movie on TV with my father in the mid-60s when I was about 10 years old.When Peter Falk was on the screen, my father said that when he was about my age (in the early 1930s), he used to set pins in a bowling alley in Brooklyn, and the real Abe Reles bowled there nearly every day.
I love the urban-crime films of the '40s- early '60s. They're distinguishable from Noir in that while they focus on the seedy side of urban American existence, they do so without focusing on personal subjects- protagonists or anti-heroes.