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Plot summary
Joe Morse is a lawyer who has gone into business with the gangster Ben Tucker. Tucker intends to bring the illegal numbers banks of New York City under his control, and to pull it off he plans to rig the winning number so that the small banks go broke. Joe's older brother Leo runs one of those banks, and Joe wants him out of the small-time end and working for the big operators. Leo likes his small business the way it is, and his employees mean as much to him as family; Doris Lowry, his secretary, is like a daughter to him. He wants no part of any gangster. Joe will not leave his brother a choice.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Force of Evil (1948)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Martin Scorsese has repeatedly acknowledged Abraham Polonsky's numbers-racket drama as an influence on his own crime films, decades after its release.
