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Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts, Michael Tolan
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Enforcer (1951) |
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THE ENFORCER is a Warner production directed by Bretaigne Windust and Raoul Walsh in 1951.
D.A. Martin Ferguson is on the eve of the most important trial of his life. Tomorrow, he will send Albert Mendoza to the electric chair because he's got Rico who witnessed the only murder Mendoza has personnally committed. But Rico is afraid: Mendoza has already tried to kill him twice. Ferguson and the police captain Nelson will stay most of the night with Rico but, unfortunately, this witness panicks and accidentally dies while trying to escape the building.
Desperate, Ferguson will once again read the Mendoza files during the rest of the night. This person created a criminal organization formed by hitmen waiting all day long for contracts given by Mendoza. The corpses of all the victims were thrown into a lake so that the police had no dead bodies and no motives for the crimes.
When Mendoza felt that Ferguson was coming too close of certain members of his organization, he began to eliminate one by one those who could be a threat to him or testify during a trial.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Enforcer (1951) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- bodyguarding VIP
Criminal enemy is...
- known killer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair style
- very short/crewcut (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
Profession/status:
- killer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- hanging
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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