Murder, Inc. (1960 film)
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Murder, Inc. is a 1960 American gangster film starring Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan and Peter Falk. Filmed in Cinemascope and directed by Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg, the film was based on the true story of Murder, Inc., a Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s.[2]
Murder, Inc. | |
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Directed by | Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg |
Screenplay by | Irve Tunick and Mel Barr |
Based on | the book "Murder, Inc." by Burton Turkus and Sid Feder |
Produced by | Burt Balaban |
Starring | Stuart Whitman May Britt Henry Morgan Peter Falk |
Cinematography | Gayne Rescher, A.S.C. |
Edited by | Ralph Rosenblum |
Music by | Frank DeVol |
Production company | Princess Productions |
Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $750,000[1] |
Falk was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his first major feature role as Abe Reles, a vicious thug who led the Murder, Inc. gang and was believed to have committed 30 murders, for which he was never prosecuted.[3] In his 2006 autobiography Just One More Thing, Falk said that Murder, Inc. launched his career.[4]
This was the first film directed by Rosenberg, who later won acclaim for Cool Hand Luke (1967), and it launched Stuart Whitman's career as a leading man.
A highly fictionalized film on the same basic events titled The Enforcer (1951), starring Humphrey Bogart, was released in the United Kingdom with the title Murder, Inc.