Word: bogarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time span of the primary plot is less than twelve hours: from the time that District Attorney Ferguson's (Humphrey Bogart) star witness commits suicide until the trial next morning. With the only man who can positively identify the head of Killers, Inc. now a corpse, Ferguson frantically flashes back over all of his evidence to hit on a new lead...
...hours. New twists like the undertaker who is kept busy full time interring ice-pick murder victims, and the disinterment of these same good people by the steamshovelful, help to replace the sirens-and-shooting histrionics of grade B gangster pictures. There is only one fisticuffs brawl, and Bogart as D.A. properly lets one of his assistants go through the motions...
...Enforcer (Warner) puts Humphrey Bogart on the side of the law, as an assistant district attorney, and pits him against a gang of racketeers inspired by Murder, Inc. The picture opens with a lecture by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, head of the Senate's crime investigators. What follows is no social document, but a gory round of killings by ice pick, razor, butcher knife, pistol...
...trial, Bogart's chief witness plunges out the window to his death. The assistant D. A. pores over the record of the case to dig out a clue to another witness. The camera goes back with him, introducing one hoodlum after another. As each tells his own story, the movie backtracks again to picture it. Bogart finds his clue just in time for a wham-bam finish...
...murder retailers do such a big business over such a short period that the picture gets a bit silly when it ought to be chilling. But it never gets dull. The thugs (notably Ted de Corsia, Zero Mostel, Everett Sloane) are well cast and played. Even Tough Guy Bogart, in a role happily without romantic attachments, seems shocked by the lethal goings...