![]() Great Noir abounds with ugly mugs like Edmund O'Brien, John Ireland and John McGraw-though the cast in THE MOB is among the ugliest and therefore best in genre history. Now this ISN'T meant as an insult-I am just stating a fact necessary for a good Noir film. That's why when I saw this film starred Broderick Crawford (king of the hard-drinking ugly actors), Ernest Borgnine and Neville Brand (the scariest looking thug in film history) I was thrilled to see it. This film has one of the most important ingredients of Film Noir down pat-it has one of the ugliest casts in film history!! True lovers of this gritty genre know that actors in such films can't be "pretty boys" but ugly and cold-blooded killers. I particularly loved the very tense and rather violent ending in the hospital-you just have to see it to understand. However, this is no routine assignment, as there are lots of dangerous twists and turns and repeatedly it appears he's about to buy the farm. And to make them think he's "their kind of guy" he comes into town with a major attitude and a willingness to slug anyone who gets in his way. Broderick Crawford plays a cop who goes undercover to infiltrate the mob.
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