Tuesday, February 22, 2022

“He’s a dictator”

From Finger Man (dir. Harold D. Schuster, 1955). T-man Burns (Hugh Sanders) speaks about a criminal boss:

“Look — you know the mobs, how they operate. One strong, ruthless man can tie a syndicate together. He pushes the buttons and pulls the strings, and all over the nation his vicious rackets are set in motion. He’s a dictator. We’re after one of those dictators. We want him bad.”

comments: 2

Chris said...

The darkest strain of human behavior (invariably male, I'm afraid) never seems to go out of style.

Michael Leddy said...

Yep. Watching film noirs, I find the line between different forms of criminality blurring all the time.