The Enforcer

Humphrey Bogart as the double-fisted district attorney who matched bullet for bullet with a nationwide network of killers-for-hire!

A former gangster, released from prison, tries to go straight but is drawn back into a world of crime when his old associates target him and his loved ones. He must navigate betrayal, danger, and the moral compromises of his past to protect those he cares about. The story unfolds as a tense urban crime drama highlighting loyalty, vengeance, and redemption.

• Humphrey Bogart’s swan song with Warner Brothers is a really interesting film. If Martin Rackin’s screenplay is a little too convoluted for its own good, it’s fascinating to see a procedural like this one, especially since it so clearly presages current day efforts like Dick Wolf’s Law and Order franchise. The film moves along without pausing to really dwell on things like character all that much, but when you have the good guys and bad guys so clearly delineated, that’s not as fatal an error as it might seem at first blush.