- The Mob (film)
caption =Still from film with Crawford in center
director =Robert Parrish
producer = Jerry Bresler
writer = Ferguson Findley (novel Waterfront)
William Bowers
starring =Broderick Crawford Betty Buehler
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distributor =Columbia Pictures
released =September 7 , 1951 premiere
runtime = 87 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0043812"The Mob" is a 1951 crime thriller film, considered
film noir , starring Broderick Crawford as a hard-nosed cop that infiltrates the Mob in order to bust their illegal dockyard activities. ActorCharles Bronson makes one of his first film appearances as a longshoreman. He was uncredited.Critical reaction
Spencer Selby, in the book Dark City: The Film Noir, calls "The Mob": "About as close as noir ever came to resurrecting the 1930s
gangster film ." ref|book1Film Noir: The Encyclopedia Reference to the American style notes "Crawford takes the simple role of Johnny Damico and converts it into a noir characterization of toughness and vulgarity." ref|book2
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References
#cite book | author= Spencer Selby| title=Dark City:The Film Noir| publisher =McFarland Classics | year=1984 | id=ISBN 0-7864-0478-7
#cite book | author= Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward| title=Film Noir An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style | publisher =The Overlook Press | year=1992 | id=ISBN 0-87951-479-5
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