Underworld U.S.A.

Underworld U.S.A.

Infobox Film
name = Underworld U.S.A.


caption = VHS cover
director = Samuel Fuller
producer = Samuel Fuller
writer = Samuel Fuller
starring = Cliff Robertson
Dolores Dorn
Beatrice Kay
music = Harry Sukman
cinematography = Hal Mohr
editing = Jerome Thoms
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = May 13 1961
runtime = 99 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0055571
amg_id = 1:51830

"Underworld U.S.A." (also known as "Underwold USA") is a 1961 film noir produced, written and directed by Samuel Fuller. It tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who goes to enormous lengths to get revenge against the mobsters who beat his father to death. It stars Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, and Beatrice Kay.

Plot

Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate. Ever since his adolescence, Tolly's (Cliff Robertson plays him as an adult) goal has been to avenge his father. Tolly has even become a criminal and gotten himself sent to prison so that he could get close to one of the perpetrators. Tolly becomes as vindictive and sadistic as the men he is after. He rejects the two relationships that could redeem him, his mother-figure (Beatrice Kay) and his moll (Dolores Dorn) in favor of cold, hard vengeance.

Becoming a secret informant for the government, Tolly ends up playing both sides against the middle in his cagey campaign to bring down the remaining mobsters. Tolly's nihilistic vendetta eventually robs him of his own humanity (and more).

Cast

*Cliff Robertson as Tolly Devlin
*Dolores Dorn as Cuddles
*Beatrice Kay as Sandy
*Paul Dubov as Gela
*Robert Emhardt as Earl Connors
*Larry Gates as John Driscoll
*Richard Rust as Gus Cottahee
*Gerald Milton as Gunther
*Allan Gruener as Smith
*David Kent as Tolly as a teen

Production

Producer Ray Stark asked Fuller to write a direct a film based on the title of a magazine article of the title written by Jospeh Dineen. Fuller also was insired by a book "Here Is to Crime" by newspaperman Riley Cooper. [ pp.383-384 Fuller, Samuel "A Third Face" Alfred A Knopf (2002)]

An opening scene with a "Union of Prostitutes" was deleted by Sam Briskin and other Columbia executives. [Ibid] Fuller's character Tolly is a loner motivated by revenge using the United States Government as well as his own devices to even the score. Fuller heard the reaction of a real life gangster who reportedly said "If only "my" son would have that kind of affection for "me"!". [p. 390 Fuller, Samuel "A Third Face" Alfred A Knopf (2002)]

References

External links

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