Humphrey Bogart as the double-fisted district attorney who matched bullet for bullet with a nationwide network of killers-for-hire!
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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.
Jeffrey Kauffman, Olive Blu-ray review (Blu-ray.com, 2013)
Selected disc options for The Enforcer
Notes
- Kino’s Blu-ray is included in the “Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXII” box set with The Scarlet Hour (1956) and Plunder Road (1957). Trailers included: Deadline - U.S.A. (1952) and The Killing (1956).
- Olive’s Blu-ray contains no extras.
- Imprint’s Blu-ray is included in the “Essential Film Noir: Collection 4” box set with Rope of Sand (1949), Appointment with Danger (1950), Beware, My Lovely (1952) and Jennifer (1953). Reissued individually (2023/09/13).
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