Broderick Crawford is playing and Sgt in the police who gets conned big time. He witnesses a shooting and then believes another policeman did the shooting. He takes a look at the badge from the other guy, and lets him walk into a store to phone it in. Only he walks out the back of the store and gets away.
The next day, he is officially suspended from the force and goes undercover to try and catch the killer. This leads him into a seedy world where his life is in danger. His relationship with his girlfriends and his life is put on hold.
There is a lot of good drama and some pretty fair action in this one. Guest cast includes Ernest Borgnine before he becomes real famous later in Marty. There's a fairly good cast for a film that is pretty much B quality with some A level cast and some A level camera work. The script is pretty decent too.
In a way, this one leads to another feature later where the mustached Crawford would play a mob boss name Lupo who would indeed be the evil side. Broderick does a fine job playing the cop and the mob guy. Check out that other film later to see him show it. (That one features Anne Bancroft)
The next day, he is officially suspended from the force and goes undercover to try and catch the killer. This leads him into a seedy world where his life is in danger. His relationship with his girlfriends and his life is put on hold.
There is a lot of good drama and some pretty fair action in this one. Guest cast includes Ernest Borgnine before he becomes real famous later in Marty. There's a fairly good cast for a film that is pretty much B quality with some A level cast and some A level camera work. The script is pretty decent too.
In a way, this one leads to another feature later where the mustached Crawford would play a mob boss name Lupo who would indeed be the evil side. Broderick does a fine job playing the cop and the mob guy. Check out that other film later to see him show it. (That one features Anne Bancroft)