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                        Chicago Syndicate (1955)
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STARS...........: Dennis O'Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart
DIRECTOR........: Fred F. Sears
WRITERS.........: Joseph Hoffman
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047934
RUNTIME.........: 1h 24mn
SIZE............: 4.97 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 8000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary by critic Toby Roan
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Indicator Columbia Noir #4 Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2022-10-31


Not long after starring in Las Vegas Shakedown, Dennis O'Keefe headed eastward to appear in Chicago Syndicate. This time, O'Keefe is cast as honest accountant Barry Amsterdam, determined to get the goods on Windy City gangster boss Arnie Valent (Paul Stewart). Insinuating himself into Valent's confidence, Amsterdam quietly begins gathering evidence. For a while it looks as though Amsterdam will go the way of his predecessor in Valent's operation, who ended up sleeping with the fishes, but in films of this nature justice usually prevails. Allison Hayes, who later played the title role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, is quite effective in the normal-sized part of the daughter of a slain accountant, while Abbe Lane plays the obligatory mob mistress (Lane's then-husband, bandleader Xavier Cugat, is also in the cast).


Extras

• Image Gallery 
• Commentary by critic Toby Roan