The Human Jungle
1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle. He calls this a cop's war that is the same as a soldier's war with the difference being that people hate cops. His cause isn't helped when a rookie policeman accidentally kills an innocent bystander. And he has to protect police informer Mary Abbott from Swados, a killer in the hire of the man behind the petty mobsters.
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast Gary Merrill · Jan Sterling · Regis Toomey · Lamont Johnson · Patrick Waltz · Chuck Connors · Paula Raymond · Emile Meyer · George Wallace · Chubby Johnson · James Westerfield · Florenz Ames · Claude Akins · Booth Colman · Henry Kulky
Soundtrack Hans J. Salter
Screenplay Daniel Fuchs · William Sackheim
Cinematography Ellis W. Carter
Original title The Human Jungle
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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