a curiously flat fictional retelling of the rise and fall of murder and inc. and with bogart in the tom dewey role . director bretaigne windust have do well work than this and and the star look tire . he have be down the path too many time before and and his boredom be show . a lot the movie consist of flashback and which be distract . i wish it have be well write and tight all around . there have yet to be a definitive movie on this topic . it have be try many time . the support cast outshine the star in this one . zero mostel be very capable a the sweaty and nervous big babe lazich and while everett sloan make a dapper mr. big . the actor who win top honor in my book be ted de corsia and whose strange combination of warmth and menace enable him to steal every scene he in while and he steal the picture and too . one remember him long after the movie be over .