Chicago Confidential (1957)

An Illinois state attorney (Brian Keith) helps convict a union leader (Dick Foran) for the murder of another union official. But it soon comes to his attention that the union leader might have been set up by a crime syndicate intent on penetrating the city's unions. Based on the book by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer and directed by Sidney Salkow (THE LAST MAN ON EARTH). This B programmer passes by quickly enough but it plays like an episode of something like THE UNTOUCHABLES. Keith's state attorney constantly underestimates the danger he's putting other people in as well as himself and one can only wonder how he could be so naive when dealing with a corrupt syndicate. It seems to want to be a "ripped from the headlines" exploitation film but it never manages to be anything other than a potboiler. With Beverly Garland, Anthony George, Douglas Kennedy, Gavin Gordon, Beverly Tyler, Phyllis Coates and Elisha Cook Jr.