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A covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums.A covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums.A covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Larry Anzalone
- Sparring Partner
- (uncredited)
George Barrows
- Bouncer at Gym
- (uncredited)
Joan Blair
- Valentine Laval
- (uncredited)
James J. Casino
- Cornerman
- (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
- Policeman at Arcade
- (uncredited)
Dick Cherney
- Man at Gym
- (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
- Prisoner
- (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
- Desk Sergeant
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Harry Kleiner
- Samuel G. Engel(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe chase inside the ferry terminal was filmed in the San Pedro Municipal Ferry Terminal in Los Angeles. The building now houses the Los Angeles Maritime Museum.
- GoofsWhen the load of newspapers is thrown on the rain-soaked street from the moving vehicle it rolls over ensuring that both sides have been exposed to the street's wetness. However the resultant cut-in shows the news headlines clean and dry with no hint of dirt or moisture.
- Quotes
Alec Stiles: I haven't seen you around lately.
Gene Cordell: [as George Manly] I've been away.
Alec Stiles: Is that right?
Gene Cordell: Weekend in the country.
Alec Stiles: Courtesy of the city?
Gene Cordell: Something like that.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
- SoundtracksBeg Your Pardon
(uncredited)
Written by Francis Craig and Beasley Smith
Performed by Marion Marshall during the opening stick-up
Featured review
Few-frills agent-in-peril noir benefits from Widmark, Stevens
J. Edgar Hoover, it now seems, was a mediocre crimefighter but a master orchestrator of his own publicity (and only secondarily that of the FBI). The Street With No Name stands as one of the better films dedicated to kissing his assiduously cultivated legend. Most directors assigned these tasks in the noir cycle wrote off such idolatry as a cost of doing business, clearing it away quickly so as to get on with their moviemaking; William Keighley follows this sensible agenda.
FBI agent Mark Stevens goes undercover to infiltrate the mob in that cesspool of crime, Center City, USA. In the boxing ring, he attracts the attention, slightly open to inference, of boss Richard Widmark, a dapper ("I like my boys to look sharp") cutthroat with a morbid fear of drafts and sneezes. With the aid of confederate John McIntyre, Stevens reports the gang's plans back to the FBI. Alas, a high-placed informant in the police department reports the FBI's plans back to Widmark.
So the movie boils down to the agent-in-peril story. Keighley tells it cleanly and briskly, eschewing the complexities (both visual and moral) of Anthony Mann's T-Men, released just a few months earlier. It's strongest in the feel for Center City's raffish tenderloin, with its fleabag hotels, pool halls and walk-up gyms. Stevens, McIntyre and Lloyd Nolan (as Stevens' superior) give workmanlike jobs with the rather staid roles scriptwriter Harry Kleiner supplies. His few-frills approach reins in Widmark, too, who's always better when he's unfettered and shooting over the top.
The Street With No Name suffers a bit from staying so resolutely all-guy; thus Barbara Lawrence suffers, too, in an underwritten and inconsequential part as Widmark's abused moll. A little more cool yin might have balanced out all that hot, hard yang.
NOTE: In 1955, Samuel Fuller remade -- and rethought -- this movie, using the same screenwriter and cinematographer (Joe MacDonald, now working in color) as House of Bamboo, set in postwar Tokyo.
FBI agent Mark Stevens goes undercover to infiltrate the mob in that cesspool of crime, Center City, USA. In the boxing ring, he attracts the attention, slightly open to inference, of boss Richard Widmark, a dapper ("I like my boys to look sharp") cutthroat with a morbid fear of drafts and sneezes. With the aid of confederate John McIntyre, Stevens reports the gang's plans back to the FBI. Alas, a high-placed informant in the police department reports the FBI's plans back to Widmark.
So the movie boils down to the agent-in-peril story. Keighley tells it cleanly and briskly, eschewing the complexities (both visual and moral) of Anthony Mann's T-Men, released just a few months earlier. It's strongest in the feel for Center City's raffish tenderloin, with its fleabag hotels, pool halls and walk-up gyms. Stevens, McIntyre and Lloyd Nolan (as Stevens' superior) give workmanlike jobs with the rather staid roles scriptwriter Harry Kleiner supplies. His few-frills approach reins in Widmark, too, who's always better when he's unfettered and shooting over the top.
The Street With No Name suffers a bit from staying so resolutely all-guy; thus Barbara Lawrence suffers, too, in an underwritten and inconsequential part as Widmark's abused moll. A little more cool yin might have balanced out all that hot, hard yang.
NOTE: In 1955, Samuel Fuller remade -- and rethought -- this movie, using the same screenwriter and cinematographer (Joe MacDonald, now working in color) as House of Bamboo, set in postwar Tokyo.
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- Also known as
- Manhunt
- Filming locations
- Municipal Ferry, San Pedro, California, USA(As Center City: George Manly walks down street and is tailed to ferry.)
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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