***SPOILERS*** Back on the screen after busting a Nazi spy ring FBI Inspector George Briggs, Llyod Noland, is now on the hunt for a crime ring in Center City that's using other peoples identities to commit their many violent crimes. Rolling or robbing unsuspecting men or transients in the skid row section of town of their drivers licenses and social security cards these no good rats rob banks and fancy night clubs in some cases gunning down innocent people and then dropping their identity cards thus implicating them in crimes that they didn't commit!
It's when the gang robbed a local bank and gunned down the bank's security guard that they made the biggest mistake in their lives by having the FBI, in that bank robbery is a federal offense, put on the case. Getting FBI Agent Gene Cordell, Mark Stevens, to go undercover as a bum on Center City's skid row the FBI, or his boss Inspt. Briggs, hopes he'd get himself recruited inside the crime ring and finds out not just how it operates but who's in charge of it. The FBI also provides Cordell, now calling himself George Manly, with a phony rap sheet showing how good he is in not only committing major and violent crimes but also being able to get off being convicted in committing them.
In no time at all Cordell/Manley's gets himself noticed by the Center City mob boss Alex Stiles (Richard Widmark) who, by having his boys lift his phony social security card, knows a good and successful hood when he sees one. Or better yet his rap sheet provided to Stiles by a member high up in the city's police department. Slowly gaining his boss-Stiles-confidence as an effective and loyal hood Manley also starts to get the goods or evidence on Stiles and his gang in a number of violent crimes that they committed all over Center City that can put them away for life; and in Stiles case in the electric chair. The big problem for Manley/Cordell is that if he's ever caught by or exposed, as an FBI Agent, by Stiles' gang he'll end up being their latest murder victim!
***SPOILERS*** Nowhere as good at the earlier FBI movie, also staring Llyod Noland as Inspector George Briggs, "The House on 92nd Street" the film "Street With no Name" has the FBI now involved with just garden verity American criminals who, unlike the Nazis and Soviets, are anything but a threat to the nations existent or even national security. The most interesting thing in the movie is that the involvement of local police, never the FBI, corruption that's by far more effective for the Stiles Mob then anything else in the film. With the mobbed up police officials, or official, actively aiding the Stiles Mob in their recruitment of local hoodlums into their ranks the Stiles Mob wouldn't have been as effective as it was in committing and getting away with its many crimes in the movie! It's in uncovering the mole in the Center City Police Department that all the efforts of the FBI together with undercover FBI Agent Cordell and his back up man Cy Gordon, John MaIntire, who ended up almost getting knifed to death by one of Stiles hoods the knife wielding psycho Shivvy played by Donald Buka, paid off!
***MAJOR SPOILER*** The one thing that bothered me about the film is just how unprofessional the local police and possibly even the FBI agent acted in the movie's final sequence. In them not even bothering to arrest and apprehend the bad guys but mindlessly gunning them down, when they were in no way a threat to them, like a bunch of Dirty Harry's who shoot first and asked questions later. It was as if the police & FBI just wanted to save the state and Federal Government the both money and trouble of trying them!
It's when the gang robbed a local bank and gunned down the bank's security guard that they made the biggest mistake in their lives by having the FBI, in that bank robbery is a federal offense, put on the case. Getting FBI Agent Gene Cordell, Mark Stevens, to go undercover as a bum on Center City's skid row the FBI, or his boss Inspt. Briggs, hopes he'd get himself recruited inside the crime ring and finds out not just how it operates but who's in charge of it. The FBI also provides Cordell, now calling himself George Manly, with a phony rap sheet showing how good he is in not only committing major and violent crimes but also being able to get off being convicted in committing them.
In no time at all Cordell/Manley's gets himself noticed by the Center City mob boss Alex Stiles (Richard Widmark) who, by having his boys lift his phony social security card, knows a good and successful hood when he sees one. Or better yet his rap sheet provided to Stiles by a member high up in the city's police department. Slowly gaining his boss-Stiles-confidence as an effective and loyal hood Manley also starts to get the goods or evidence on Stiles and his gang in a number of violent crimes that they committed all over Center City that can put them away for life; and in Stiles case in the electric chair. The big problem for Manley/Cordell is that if he's ever caught by or exposed, as an FBI Agent, by Stiles' gang he'll end up being their latest murder victim!
***SPOILERS*** Nowhere as good at the earlier FBI movie, also staring Llyod Noland as Inspector George Briggs, "The House on 92nd Street" the film "Street With no Name" has the FBI now involved with just garden verity American criminals who, unlike the Nazis and Soviets, are anything but a threat to the nations existent or even national security. The most interesting thing in the movie is that the involvement of local police, never the FBI, corruption that's by far more effective for the Stiles Mob then anything else in the film. With the mobbed up police officials, or official, actively aiding the Stiles Mob in their recruitment of local hoodlums into their ranks the Stiles Mob wouldn't have been as effective as it was in committing and getting away with its many crimes in the movie! It's in uncovering the mole in the Center City Police Department that all the efforts of the FBI together with undercover FBI Agent Cordell and his back up man Cy Gordon, John MaIntire, who ended up almost getting knifed to death by one of Stiles hoods the knife wielding psycho Shivvy played by Donald Buka, paid off!
***MAJOR SPOILER*** The one thing that bothered me about the film is just how unprofessional the local police and possibly even the FBI agent acted in the movie's final sequence. In them not even bothering to arrest and apprehend the bad guys but mindlessly gunning them down, when they were in no way a threat to them, like a bunch of Dirty Harry's who shoot first and asked questions later. It was as if the police & FBI just wanted to save the state and Federal Government the both money and trouble of trying them!