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"The Enforcer" is the first really good cops-and-robbers picture to arrive in Boston for a long time. Marvin Racken's taut, original story of the apprehension of Killers, Inc.--a Kansas City murder syndicate--insures a better than average show from the start. But it is Director Bretaigne...

Author: By Humphrey Doermann, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/27/1951 | See Source »

The 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

But Drury was also a tough cop, handy with his fists and afraid of nobody. He habitually put the pinch on, or otherwise harassed, such hearties as Murray ("The Camel") Humphries, the late Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti, Louis ("Little New York") Campagna, Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, Big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I'm Awfully Hot | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Last Chance. One night after dinner last week, Charlie Binaggio had his bodyguard Nick Penna drive him over to the Last Chance Tavern, a gambling joint which straddles the Missouri-Kansas line so that when the heat is on in one state, the dice tables can be shoved over into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Murder on Truman Road | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

"When the guys from out of town louse up a job and only 'hurt' somebody, The Enforcer don't fool around none. He has one of his own guys get the two guys who blew the job. That's why very few fellows get hurt around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Elmer Did | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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