The Case Against Brooklyn

{{short description|1958 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = The Case Against Brooklyn | image = The Case Against Brooklyn FilmPoster.jpeg | caption = Original film poster | director = [[Paul Wendkos]] | producer = [[Charles H. Schneer]] | based_on = {{based on|"I Broke the Brooklyn Graft Scandal"|[[Ed Reid]]}} | screenplay = {{ubl|[[Bernard Gordon (writer)|Raymond T. Marcus]]|[[Daniel B. Ullman]]}} | story = Daniel B. Ullman | starring = {{ubl|[[Darren McGavin]]|[[Margaret Hayes]]}} | cinematography = Fred Jackman, Jr. | editing = Edwin H. Bryant | studio = Morningside Productions | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] | released = {{film date|1958|06||}} | runtime = 81 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Case Against Brooklyn''''' is a 1958 [[film noir]] [[crime film]] directed by [[Paul Wendkos]], starring [[Darren McGavin]] and [[Margaret Hayes]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-case-against-brooklyn-86768|title=The Case Against Brooklyn (1958) - Paul Wendkos |website=AllMovie}}</ref> and based on the ''[[True (magazine)|True Magazine]]'' article "I Broke the Brooklyn Graft Scandal" by crime reporter [[Ed Reid]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Case Against Brooklyn |url=http://americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/the-case-against-brooklyn |website=[[American Cinematheque]] |access-date=3 June 2022 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Case Against Brooklyn - Darrin McGavin |url=http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/dvd_reviews_61/the_case_against_brooklyn.htm |website=dvd beaver |access-date=3 June 2022}}</ref> The film features depictions of American [[police corruption]], though no police officer in uniform is shown to be corrupt.

==Plot== In an attempt to combat police corruption, newly graduated rookie cops are recruited to serve undercover to find information on a complex illegal betting network in [[Brooklyn]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Case Against Brooklyn (1958) |url=https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film864246.html |website=film affinity |access-date=3 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Film Noir Collection Vol. 1 (Case Against Brooklyn, Criminal Lawyer, Crooked Web, Escape from San Quentin, Shadow on the Window) |url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/59967/film-noir-collection-vol-1-case-against-brooklyn-criminal-lawyer-crooked-web-escape-from-san-quentin-shadow-on-the-window/ |website=DVD Talk |access-date=3 June 2022 |date=December 4, 2012}}</ref> One of these officers, ex-Marine Pete Harris, formerly with [[Military Intelligence]] in Japan, is tasked to make the acquaintance of a woman whose husband was recently murdered by the Mob over gambling debts.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Case Against Brooklyn (1958) |url=https://wheredangerlives.blogspot.com/2011/09/case-against-brooklyn-1958.html |website=Where Danger Lives |access-date=3 June 2022 |date=September 30, 2011}}</ref>

==Cast== {{castlist| * [[Darren McGavin]] as Pete Harris * [[Margaret Hayes]] as Lil Polombo née Alexander (as Maggie Hayes) * [[Warren Stevens]] as Rudi Franklin * [[Peggy McCay]] as Mrs. Jane Harris * [[Tol Avery]] as Dist. Atty. Michael W. Norris * [[Emile Meyer]] as Police Capt. T.W. Wills * [[Nestor Paiva]] as Finelli * [[Brian G. Hutton]] as Jess Johnson (as Brian Hutton) * [[Robert Osterloh]] as Det. Sgt. Bonney * [[Joe Turkel]] as Henchman Monte * [[Bobby Helms]] as Himself - Vocalist }}

==Further reading== * {{citation | last1=Park | first1=William| title=''What is Film Noir?'' | chapter=Appendix A:Within the Genre|year=2011| publisher=[[Bucknell University Press]]| isbn= 978-1-6114-8363-5 | chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=W4RQSvoBwGkC&pg=PA102 }}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0051456|title=The Case Against Brooklyn}} * John Grant [https://noirencyclopedia.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/case-against-brooklyn-the-1958/ The Case Against Brooklyn] @ Noirish * [https://www.imcdb.org/m51456.html The Case Against Brooklyn] Internet Movie Cars Database

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