Rarely has a movie had as many impersonations as "The Mob." Let's see...it starts out when a cop shoots a hood but it turns out that the cop wasn't a real policeman, just a gunzel with a stolen badge. And the hood was actually an undercover detective. So Broderick Crawford is sent to the waterfront to investigate, disguised as a longshoreman from New Orleans. That brings him together with Richard Kiley who isn't the dock worker he pretends to be, a bartender known as Smoothie who's leading a double life and even a local cop with an alternate identity. The odd thing is that despite the impostures, it's a very entertaining movie with a tough, brash performance by Crawford and first-rate support from Richard Kiley, Neville Brand and Ernest Borgnine.
