1941·Crime·1h 25m
7.1
★
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Directed by Anatole Litvak
fire
drowning
gangster
protection money
boat
fisherman
film noir
extortion
pier
brooklyn, new york city
racketeers
assassination plan
wharf
docks
petty criminal
father and daughter
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Cast
Ida Lupino
Stella Goodwin
John Garfield
Harold Goff
Thomas Mitchell
Jonah Goodwin
Eddie Albert
George Watkins
George Tobias
Igor Propotkin
John Qualen
Olaf Johnson
Aline MacMahon
Florence Goodwin
Jerome Cowan
Assistant D.A.
Odette Myrtil
Caroline Pomponette
Leo Gorcey
Eddie
Robert Homans
Officer Magruder
Bernard Gorcey
Sam Pepper
Crew
Anatole Litvak
Director
Robert Rossen
Screenplay
Jerry Wald
Screenplay
Heinz Roemheld
Original Music Composer
James Wong Howe
Director of Photography
Hal B. Wallis
Executive Producer
Irwin Shaw
Theatre Play
Popular Reviews
10 reviews
Poo
7.0★ · 11/28/25
Solid performances Lupino and Garfield, loads of great character actors (the waiter!, the Russian dude in the baths!), and amazing (appropriately foggy) cinematography from the goat James Wong. But overall, the film never quite becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Solid performances Lupino and Garfield, loads of great character actors (the waiter!, the Russian dude in the baths!), and amazing (appropriately foggy) cinematography from the goat James Wong. But overall, the film never quite becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Lobster 49
7.0★ · 07/26/25
Trying to warn against fascism a la Hays Code
Trying to warn against fascism a la Hays Code
Tristan
6.0★ · 05/28/25
Jonah deserves a way better life than his psychotic wife and dumb bitch daughter give him.
Jonah deserves a way better life than his psychotic wife and dumb bitch daughter give him.
Cami
7.0★ · 11/28/22
Ida Lupino’s career is fascinating to me. I look forward of seeing more of her work. Here she plays a complex female character with her own wants and desires and a rebelliousness that is not vilified. I can’t wait to discover more of her!!
Ida Lupino’s career is fascinating to me. I look forward of seeing more of her work. Here she plays a complex female character with her own wants and desires and a rebelliousness that is not vilified. I can’t wait to discover more of her!!
Finn B
7.0★ · 04/28/26