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Synopsis: Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Director(s): Abraham Polonsky
Production: MGM
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
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Year:
1948
79 min
428 Views


Tucker will make you

respectable.

He's giving me a quarter

of a million dollars

To create public sentiment

to make policy legal,

Like bingo, bango,

and the Irish sweepstakes.

I'm paying you back, Leo.

I'll make you rich,

With an office on wall

street up in the clouds!

Be calm, Leo.

Be sensible.

All right. I am sensible.

I am calm.

I'll give you my answer

calmly and sensibly.

My final answer.

My final answer is finally no.

The answer is no-

Absolutely

and finally no,

Finally and

positively no!

No! No! No!

N- O!

Bunte, this is Morse.

Are you clean? Can I talk?

I want you to get a tip in

to the police

So they throw a raid

into my brother's bank.

I'll take

the responsibility.

I want this done right away,

this afternoon.

I want my brother to know

that Tucker is running policy.

I want to force him in.

I'm on the street.

Let's not make a big spiel

out of this.

I want my brother kept in jail

till I get him out.

Going home, Doris?

Yes, Mr. Morse,

But I wanted to talk

to you first if I could.

About what?

Well, that's not very easy

to say, Mr. Morse.

It's not very easy

to say.

I've been thinking

about it all afternoon.

If there's something

you want to say,

Say it, Doris.

Well, I just wanted

to say that-

You know Im grateful

For everything

you've done for me.

You know that,

don't you?

You sound so sad.

Is there something wrong?

Has something happened?

I haven't forgotten

That you gave me

my first job, Mr. Morse.

Believe me,

I haven't forgotten it.

And I haven't forgotten how,

when times were bad

And you had no money

to take home,

I always had

my salary.

I haven't forgotten that.

You sound as though

you were leaving me, Doris.

No, Mr. Morse,

Im not leaving you.

There's nothing

I wouldn't do

For you or Mrs. Morse.

You've both

been so kind.

But Im leaving

this job.

Something my brother

said upset you.

Black sheep like to make

everybody else look black.

That's right, and it's

very easy when they are black.

But Im only here to say

that all afternoon

I've been thinking

that's the way I feel now,

And I simply can't work here

anymore, Mr. Morse.

I simply can't.

I have to leave.

Then leave.

Then quit.

You're young, Doris.

You'll discover

as you grow older

That sometimes

a man does things

He'd prefer

not to do.

I'm not trying to say

anything about you, Mr. Morse.

I'm only talking about myself

And why I feel

I can't stay here.

Then leave.

I'm sorry, Mr. Morse.

Thanks for the tears.

That Mr. Morse's brother

is Tucker's lawyer,

Isn't he, Mr. Bauer?

He's worse.

He's Tucker's brain.

That's

Tucker's brain.

What are you

talking about?

Who is it?

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Abraham Polonsky

Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist. He won an Academy Award for a screenplay, but in the late 1950s was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios, after refusing to testify at congressional hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era. more…

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