Cry of the City

Threaded with religious sentiment like a 1970s Martin Scorsese or Abel Ferrara movie, 1948’s Cry of the City stars Richard Conte and Victor Mature as two Italian-Americans who knew each other as kids. Now grown up they’ve wound up on opposite sides of the law – Martin Rome (Conte) is a criminal languishing in a prison hospital after a heist gone wrong. Vittorio Candella (Mature) is the cop trying to chase down what happened. A cop also died at the scene of the heist so Martin Rome is heading for Death Row, if he survives. Aiming to use this to his shadowy client’s advantage, slippery lawyer WA Niles (Berry Kroeger) is also buzzing about … Read more