The Case Against Brooklyn
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Duration Country United States | 6.6/10 Genres Drama, Crime Fiction Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast (Pete Harris), (Lil Polombo nee Alexander), (Rudi Franklin), (Mrs. Jane Harris), (Dist. Atty. Michael W. Norris), (Police Capt. T.W. Wills) Release date June 1958 Similar movies Lethal Weapon 3 , Brooklyn's Finest , The Rookie , No Man's Land , The Right to Remain Silent , The New Centurions Tagline Is this cop for sale? |
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The Case Against Brooklyn is a 1958 film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Darren McGavin and Margaret Hayes. It was based on a True Magazine article I Broke the Brooklyn Graft Scandal by crime reporter Ed Reid. It featured depictions of American police corruption though no police officer in uniform is shown to be corrupt.
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The film has the style of a documentary film and at first seems to be a police procedural. It actually has film noir elements, such as a love affair between a married rookie cop and the widow of a mobster.
Plot
Ex-Marine Pete Harris, formerly with Military Intelligence is taken out of his Police Academy due to his experience to work undercover to investigate police corruption.
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The Case Against Brooklyn Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
The Case Against Brooklyn IMDb The Case Against Brooklyn themoviedb.org
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