New York Confidential

"When these guns go off they set off the biggest screen explosion about the violence-and-vice merchants ever made public!"

Mar 12 1955 Approved 1h 28m
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.

Plot

Nick Magellan works for the corrupt businessman Charlie Lupo, who presides over an influential crime syndicate in Manhattan, New York. New York senators belong to the realm of this syndicate. Charlie has a recalcitrant daughter, Kathy Lupo. She is in love with Nick. Nick protects Kathy against her father when she leaves her parental home. Charlie always knows not to be judged, but when one of the senators talks too much during a television interview, he is in the center of a massive fraud research by the law.

Written by

Jack Lait, Lee Mortimer, Clarence Greene

Directed by

Russell Rouse

Cast

Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Edward Small Productions

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Trailers
New York Confidential (1955) Trailer Richard Conte.
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