The Captive City (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 5, 2016
- Originally Released: 1952
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Forsythe | |
Directed by | Robert Wise | |
Screenwriting by | Alvin Josephy, Jr. & Karl Kamb | |
Composition by | Jerome Moross | |
Story by | Alvin Josephy, Jr. | |
Director of Photography: | Lee Garmes |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B- --
One of the first crime films to use the Kefauver crime hearings as part of its expose story.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
An exposé of organised crime, as seen through the eyes of a small-town newspaper editor, played by John Forsyth.
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Radio Times
Cutting Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons definitely did Wise a few favors.
Slant Magazine
A tense, absorbing drama.
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Variety
The earnest plot is nothing to write home about, but the effective use of documentary-style location shooting and deep-focus photography was innovatory for its day.
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Time Out
Somewhere along about the middle of all these goings-on, an alert and knowing observer may spot some provoking holes.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Teal is frighteningly realistic as the corrupt police chief, and Sutherland is even more terrifying as the crime boss. Dawson is perfect as the gumshoe whose honesty exceeds his greed.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
One of several early-1950s films to capitalize on the Kefauver Committee's investigation of organized crime, THE CAPTIVE CITY stars John Forsythe as crusading editor Jim Austin. While Austin prepares his testimony before the Committee, the film flashes back to the events which led to this courageous act. Victor Sutherland plays mob boss Murray Sirak, who has the entire police force of Austin's hometown under his thumb. Sirak in turns takes his orders from an unseen Mister Big, who of course is "above the law"--or so it seems. Based on the experiences of TIME magazine reporter Alvin Josephy Jr. (who co-authored the script), CAPTIVE CITY contains the added fillip of a guest appearance by Senator Estes Kefauver himself.