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T-Men
Why this pick
Like The Street with No Name, it uses a semi-documentary procedural style and undercover federal agents moving through a hard-edged postwar criminal underworld.
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MOVIE1948 1h 31m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A crime wave, including a holdup at a nightclub that ends in a murder and a bank robbery in which a guard is killed, has hit Center City. A squad of FBI agents headed by inspector George A. Briggs meets with local FBI field officer Richard Atkins, police chief Bernard Harmatz and Police Commissioner Ralph Demory. After Briggs interrogates suspect Robert Danker, who claims he was not involved in either killing and that he has been framed, various tests are run at the FBI laboratory in Washington that exonerate Danker. Later Danker, who has been bailed out by "John Smith," is found stabbed to death. At the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, Briggs briefs agent Gene Cordell, who is going undercover in Center City to try to infiltrate the gang Briggs thinks is responsible for all three killings. Cordell takes a bus into Center City and rents a room at the same "Skid Row" hotel in which Danker had been living. Fellow agent Cy Gordon is in a similar hotel across the street from him. Using the name George Manly, Cordell makes himself known in the area by going to the local gym and picking a fight with one of the boxers training there. He is spotted by owner Alec Stiles, who offers him cash if he can last against the boxer. He does, and Alec pays him off.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mark Stevens
Gene Cordell / George Manly
Lloyd Nolan
Insp. George A. Briggs
Barbara Lawrence
Judy Stiles
Donald Buka
Shivvy
Walter Greaza
Lt. Paul Staller
Howard Smith
Ralph Demory
Richard Widmark
Alec Stiles
Ed Begley
Chief Bernard Harmatz