As a gang of youths terrorizes a city, the weary chief of police finds himself caught between the citizens who cry for blood and a catholic priest who believes the boys will respond to kindness.
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Tag Archives: Martin Balsam
The Anderson Tapes (1971) Sidney Lumet, Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Crime, Thriller
A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn’t know is that his every move is recorded on audio and video tape, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
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Confessions of a Police Captain / Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica (1971) Damiano Damiani, Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo, Crime, Drama
One of the first films about the mafia occurrence, in which the fight is hopeless, because “the polyp’s feeler” reaches everything and everybody. A police inspector and a deputy public prosecutor try to prove that the architect in the city is in the mafia.
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Al Capone (1959) Richard Wilson, Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Fay Spain
This factual biography of gang lord Al Capone follows his rise and fall in Chicago gangdom during the Prohibition era.
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