| NR,1hr 27min Released: January 1, 1951 Distributor:Columbia Pictures Synopsis: Broderick Crawford plays Johnny Damico, a detective who suddenly finds himself up to his neck in trouble and his career on the line. Going home in the rain one night, he finds himself just a few feet from a shooting on a dark street, where the gunman claims to be a detective from another precinct, flashing a real badge -- and then slipping away. Damico discovers that the victim of the shooting was a witness who was to have appeared before a grand jury investigating waterfront crime, and that the ... Full Synopsis
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| The Mob is not On the Waterfront, though the middle section, in which tough cop Johnny D'Amico (Broderick Crawford) infiltrates the ranks of New York's longshoremen, might make you think for a minute that you've tuned in to a rip-off of Elia Kazan's classic. Actually, The Mob was made two years earlier by Robert Parrish, an award-winning editor in his first directorial effort, and it's closer in spirit ... Read Review | |
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