Force of Evil

"This is Wall Street... and today was important because tomorrow - July Fourth - I intended to make my first million dollars. An exciting day in any man's life. Temporarily, the enterprise was slightly illegal. You see I was the lawyer for the numbers racket."

"A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said."

"I found my brother's body at the bottom there, where they had thrown it away on the rocks... by the river... like an old dirty rag nobody wants. He was dead - and I felt I had killed him. I turned back to give myself up to Hall; because if a man's life can be lived so long and come out this way - like rubbish - then something was horrible and had to be ended one way or another... and I decided to help."

"All that Cain did to Abel was murder him."

"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!"

"What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business."

"John Garfield - Joe Morse"

"Thomas Gomez - Leo Morse"

"Marie Windsor - Edna Tucker"

"Howland Chamberlain - Freddie Bauer"

"Roy Roberts - Ben Tucker"

"Paul Fix - Bill Ficco"

"Stanley Prager - Wally"

"Barry Kelley - Detective Egan"

"Paul McVey - Hobe Wheelock"

"Beatrice Pearson - Doris Lowry"

"Force of Evil stands up under repeated viewings as one of the great films of the modern American cinema..."