Wonderful sequel to "The House on 92nd Street" and this lifelong Washingtonian loves the opening shots of streetcars on Pennsylvania Ave. And the FBI as "the good guys"... now that is nostalgic! Thanks for posting this fine print of a classic.
I love these tough, gritty semi-documentary crime dramas from the late forties and early fifties. They are examples of entertaining and "no-nonsense" filmmaking and always have great casts.
Brilliant movie Richard Widmark could play any part. He brought an intensity, & intelligence to any part and villanous as we see here just great acting all round 👍
The best of the FBI/Police movies made back then, the cast is great, too. I love Widmark, and Mark Stevens was as good as actors in bigger roles, IMO. 2 underrated actors:John McIntire and Ed Begley made many good films, and until 12 Angry Men, Begley was never given credit he deserved. He was awesome with Fonda in that role. Great post-TY!
@@garryferrington811 AFTER he made movies for years without being appreciated by the big shots in charge. He could have handled bigger roles long before 12AM.
A tight thriller with little excess. Like the sequence from 58:07-1:03:30 - no dialogue, just a few sound effects. This was Richard Widmark's second film, the first being Kiss of Death. Widmark won a Golden Globe for his role in that film and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
I grew up in the 60's. Many people always carried wallet with drivers license and social security card with them. People were not as sleazy as today. Identity theft was rare. You grew up in a different era. License was left to frame the guy.
@@cattymajivI don't think the FBI were ever "the good guys" as it was shown here. Many people; especially Black folks realized that during the civil rights movement, and later on during other Black liberation movements.
When I was an intern a black patient’s son hated me because she was in a county hospital being cared for by residents. Her son may have felt guilty that he couldn’t purchase health insurance for her. The attitude of some other people who had reason to doubt us was similar.
Richard Widmark plays scary and intimidating thugs like no other actor of that time period. Him and Peter Lorre. Dudes had some real sinister vibes. Not a bad film and liked that they didn't overwork the propaganda angle like many crime films did in the 1940's and 1950's. Widmark was worth watching it all the way through.
Hey FBI of today... you people, persons, gang, or team. Really need to watch what you used to be about, please turn off your cell phones pay attention and watch it twice. For Gods sake!
Yeah people always carry their social security card and their wallet with them when they go to rob a jewelry store, and then leave their social security card there. That's how they catch most of the jewelry store thieves. Ridiculous.
@@jobuchner2563 well, no, I didnt say that. But I realized I'd seen it before, so I stopped watching. But such a ridiculous and obvious set up and frame. They might have well placed his birth certificate and baptismal certificate.
People used to habitually carry their SS cards. There wasn't ID theft as a common crime until fairly recently. Criminals really do leave things at the scene of a crime because of panic and inexperience, disorganization, or being interrupted.
@@kevino4846 I've been watching boxing since Muhammad Ali brought the game back from Mafia control. Tyson was the last of the great honest heavyweights. None of that champion boxing knowledge appears in Rocky anywhere. The whole movie series is juvenile and helps to sugar poison the very real athletic competition. Stallion? Hahahahahaha hahahahahah...... Get real.
@@kevino4846 You have never watched a real boxing match, have you? A good match is not a pretend slug-fest full of blood you must watch because you got to really like Stallone and hope for revenge.
I hate those scenes. They bore me to tears, so do chase scenes, car chases, gun fights, or fights of any kind. Basically all the things they try to pass of as "action scenes." They use them just to kill time when they have nothing valid to put there instead, and it shows.
@@JjJJ-fh5fn i know its effen disgusting how peeps were duped into smoking they should show all the cool stars with cigs hanging out their mouths when they were dying young from lung cancer, right? oh well theres countless suckers born every day but not me!
Sleeve stripes: Aren’t those representing Donut & Coffee Sorties ( each stripe represents thousands of Free Hot Coffee & Free Fresh Donut sorties, & chatting up young unmarried underage waitresses. ( Dirty old men). :)
What a stupid movie! Planning an operation knowing there is a traitor-squealer in the police department! 😂😂😂 What was the screenwriter thinking of?!😂😂😂😂
Almost all "noirs" were equally dumb. They were the B movies that were shown just as time filler in a double bill. Back then you got 2 movies for the price of one. A really good A movie, and a movie like this.
says j edgar famous crossdresser whivh is fine i'm not saying a crossdresser cant be the head of the fbi but to shame dominate coerce others cause they were different tha "normal" just aint right go edgar!!
Wonderful sequel to "The House on 92nd Street" and this lifelong Washingtonian loves the opening shots of streetcars on Pennsylvania Ave. And the FBI as "the good guys"... now that is nostalgic! Thanks for posting this fine print of a classic.
Wow. I started watching, and had to sit through the entire film, no way to break away from it. Wonderful movie.
I love these tough, gritty semi-documentary crime dramas from the late forties and early fifties. They are examples of entertaining and "no-nonsense" filmmaking and always have great casts.
Really good flick. Widmark makes tge best bad guy. Very convincing actor n anything he does 👍
Brilliant movie Richard Widmark could play any part. He brought an intensity, & intelligence to any part and villanous as we see here just great acting all round 👍
Richard was born to do Film Noir's!!!
The best of the FBI/Police movies made back then, the cast is great, too. I love Widmark, and Mark Stevens was as good as actors in bigger roles, IMO. 2 underrated actors:John McIntire and Ed Begley made many good films, and until 12 Angry Men, Begley was never given credit he deserved. He was awesome with Fonda in that role. Great post-TY!
Begley received an Oscar. That seems like pretty good recognition.
@@garryferrington811 AFTER he made movies for years without being appreciated by the big shots in charge. He could have handled bigger roles long before 12AM.
Richard Widmark was one of best. Now I have to see 92nd st.
Richard widmark played a better gangster than a real one. Good movie ..
This was amazing!! Thanks for the upload!!!
William Woodson, narrator (he was also heard on radio's "THIS IS YOUR FBI" at the time).
Great movie thanks for loading up watched it till the end🙏👍👍👍👍❤️
Widmark CAN DEFINITELY play a gritty effin’ bad guy. Amiright? Just sayin”.
A tight thriller with little excess. Like the sequence from 58:07-1:03:30 - no dialogue, just a few sound effects. This was Richard Widmark's second film, the first being Kiss of Death. Widmark won a Golden Globe for his role in that film and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
I grew up in the 60's. Many people always carried wallet with drivers license and social security card with them. People were not as sleazy as today. Identity theft was rare. You grew up in a different era. License was left to frame the guy.
Now a days people do identify theft digitally or electronically, I've always and will always carry my driver's license and ss card with me!
@@teresawest5602 I never carried my Social Security Card. Still have the Original.
I know my Social Insurance Number so I don't need the card, but I always carry my driver's licence.
Times change, but people don't.
I'll never go to Center City. Too dangerous.
Just love to read the movie critic/casting, anti-smoking, no one mentioning excessive drinking, and plain idiotic comments
Excellent movie. Thanks for uploading.
Great movie. It seems the FBI focus has changed a lot over the years.
Not really. They're still after treasonous, seditious, con artists and frauds like Traitor Trump.
Had to. Crooks have changed. What they had to deal with was kindergarten in comparison to today.
@@cattymajiv Yeah, like treasonous, seditious, America hating, democracy hating, fascist, radical right extremists running for president.
@@cattymajivI don't think the FBI were ever "the good guys" as it was shown here. Many people; especially Black folks realized that during the civil rights movement, and later on during other Black liberation movements.
A really decent movie! 👍
A time capsule .😊
When I was an intern a black patient’s son hated me because she was in a county hospital being cared for by residents. Her son may have felt guilty that he couldn’t purchase health insurance for her. The attitude of some other people who had reason to doubt us was similar.
Richard Widmark plays scary and intimidating thugs like no other actor of that time period. Him and Peter Lorre. Dudes had some real sinister vibes. Not a bad film and liked that they didn't overwork the propaganda angle like many crime films did in the 1940's and 1950's. Widmark was worth watching it all the way through.
love the B&W Hoover era ;p
good flick, without the usual cigarette smoking.
Good movie with some familiar faces. Widmark had that getting shot and dying the down pat. Thanks AM
Splendid ❤❤
Good movie, but stupid for Feds to tell cops about the bust when they knew there was a leak. Stevens was good, and Lloyd Nolan as always.
Civilian Agency “OpSec Comm Sec” protocols were & still are ignored by sophomoric “amateurs”. Tally Body Counts! :(
7/10, even though the 21st Century FBI has soiled themselves.
By failing to get that draft dodging traitor, old bone spurs himself, prison time.
Bad end for bob danker…he also got it over Germany with the 918th😺
J. Edgar Hoover, says it all!
who is narrating this story? Does anyone know?
Hey FBI of today... you people, persons, gang, or team. Really need to watch what you used to be about, please turn off your cell phones pay attention and watch it twice. For Gods sake!
Was this remastered? Production values are very high.
Unwatchable-too many commercials.Looks like a good movie,tho!!
11:35 Good "ole" Hogan's Alley..
Yeah people always carry their social security card and their wallet with them when they go to rob a jewelry store, and then leave their social security card there. That's how they catch most of the jewelry store thieves. Ridiculous.
So, you didn't like this film then?
@@jobuchner2563 well, no, I didnt say that. But I realized I'd seen it before, so I stopped watching. But such a ridiculous and obvious set up and frame. They might have well placed his birth certificate and baptismal certificate.
People used to habitually carry their SS cards. There wasn't ID theft as a common crime until fairly recently. Criminals really do leave things at the scene of a crime because of panic and inexperience, disorganization, or being interrupted.
Shouldn't b n wallet anyway. Should b left at home but good point on all. It's a movie, writer wantd it.
@@diannemiller1895 it was 1948. You kept it with you in your wallet in those days.
Good movie, don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
The boxing scene is better than anything in "Rocky"
Uh, no. Watch Rocky again.
@@kevino4846 I've been watching boxing since Muhammad Ali brought the game back from Mafia control. Tyson was the last of the great honest heavyweights. None of that champion boxing knowledge appears in Rocky anywhere. The whole movie series is juvenile and helps to sugar poison the very real athletic competition. Stallion? Hahahahahaha hahahahahah...... Get real.
@@kevino4846 You have never watched a real boxing match, have you? A good match is not a pretend slug-fest full of blood you must watch because you got to really like Stallone and hope for revenge.
I hate those scenes. They bore me to tears, so do chase scenes, car chases, gun fights, or fights of any kind. Basically all the things they try to pass of as "action scenes." They use them just to kill time when they have nothing valid to put there instead, and it shows.
@@cattymajivYes. The American media has become thoughtless overkill and a childish spectacle.
Odd way to sound a message over a mic. Acted like a first time civie using a transmitter for the first time.
Wow so he got nuthin at the end. No girl no money shheeesh
Why is everybody smoking all the time?
cause everybody smoked back then anywhere, anytime. No restrictions like today.
It was a hidden propaganda of smoking and advertisement for the tobacco dealers. People’s mind was effected without realizing.
@@JjJJ-fh5fn i know its effen disgusting how peeps were duped into smoking they should show all the cool stars with cigs hanging out their mouths when they were dying young from lung cancer, right? oh well theres countless suckers born every day but not me!
STRESS
Because it gives actors something to do, particularly with their hands, when they do not have a line. Same with drinks.
Sam Fuller stole, i mean borrowed,
the plot for House of Bamboo
He merely seized and redistributed it, Comrade...
I tink it udder bay around 😺
Not the FBI of today. Ask Trump, and others.
What's w all those stripes on Chief of Police sleeves? Thats ridiculous!
1948, similar to military uniforms. Uniforms really haven't really changed all that much.
@@jobuchner2563 that was too much. What does he want, people to think he's US Admiral of the Fleet?
@@aspenrebel that was the style back then, too much or not.
Sleeve stripes:
Aren’t those representing Donut & Coffee Sorties ( each stripe represents thousands of Free Hot Coffee & Free Fresh Donut sorties, & chatting up young unmarried underage waitresses.
( Dirty old men). :)
@@pmullins1495 Dunkin' Donuts wouldn't exist if there weren't police.
Thats 2 ads,and i'm out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back when the FBI wasn’t a pro-Communist criminal organization aiding traitors.
Clodinky
Truth be told. 100% propaganda film.
Widmark is just sleazy
His characters, which show what a good actor he was. By all accounts, one of the nicest guys around. Had a very long marriage.
What a stupid movie!
Planning an operation knowing there is a traitor-squealer in the police department! 😂😂😂
What was the screenwriter thinking of?!😂😂😂😂
I think you'll find that they weren't thinking
That’s the magic of a Hollywood story.
Almost all "noirs" were equally dumb. They were the B movies that were shown just as time filler in a double bill. Back then you got 2 movies for the price of one. A really good A movie, and a movie like this.
How boring. BORING!
Do you prefer the pyrotechnic trash Follywood puts out today?
says j edgar famous crossdresser whivh is fine i'm not saying a crossdresser cant be the head of the fbi but to shame dominate coerce others cause they were different tha "normal" just aint right go edgar!!