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Meutres à responsabilité limitée

Titre original : Chicago Syndicate
  • 1955
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 24min
NOTE IMDb
6,5/10
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Allison Hayes, Abbe Lane, and Dennis O'Keefe in Meutres à responsabilité limitée (1955)
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Un ex-comptable militaire est recruté par le FBI pour infiltrer la foule à Chicago dans le but de briser les rackets. Pour lui compliquer la tâche, deux femmes se dressent sur son chemin, ch... Tout lireUn ex-comptable militaire est recruté par le FBI pour infiltrer la foule à Chicago dans le but de briser les rackets. Pour lui compliquer la tâche, deux femmes se dressent sur son chemin, chacune avec son propre agenda.Un ex-comptable militaire est recruté par le FBI pour infiltrer la foule à Chicago dans le but de briser les rackets. Pour lui compliquer la tâche, deux femmes se dressent sur son chemin, chacune avec son propre agenda.

  • Réalisation
    • Fred F. Sears
  • Scénario
    • Joseph Hoffman
    • William Sackheim
  • Casting principal
    • Dennis O'Keefe
    • Abbe Lane
    • Paul Stewart
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    6,5/10
    733
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Fred F. Sears
    • Scénario
      • Joseph Hoffman
      • William Sackheim
    • Casting principal
      • Dennis O'Keefe
      • Abbe Lane
      • Paul Stewart
    • 22avis d'utilisateurs
    • 8avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Rôles principaux48

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    Dennis O'Keefe
    Dennis O'Keefe
    • Barry Amsterdam
    Abbe Lane
    Abbe Lane
    • Connie Peters
    Paul Stewart
    Paul Stewart
    • Arnold 'Arnie' Valent
    Xavier Cugat
    Xavier Cugat
    • Benny Chico
    Allison Hayes
    Allison Hayes
    • Sue Morton
    Richard H. Cutting
    Richard H. Cutting
    • David Healey…
    Chris Alcaide
    Chris Alcaide
    • Nate - a Thug
    William Challee
    William Challee
    • Dolan - a Thug
    John Zaremba
    John Zaremba
    • Det. Lt. Robert Fenton
    George Brand
    • Jack Roper
    Hugh Sanders
    Hugh Sanders
    • Pat Winters
    Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra
    Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra
    • Orchestra
    • (as Xavier Cugat Orchestra)
    Nina Borget
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (non crédité)
    John Breen
    • Pedestrian
    • (non crédité)
    Al Cantor
    • Crime Scene Photographer
    • (non crédité)
    Al Capone
    Al Capone
    • Al Capone
    • (images d'archives)
    • (non crédité)
    Steve Carruthers
    Steve Carruthers
    • Party Guest
    • (non crédité)
    Beulah Christian
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Fred F. Sears
    • Scénario
      • Joseph Hoffman
      • William Sackheim
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    6Cowc16

    Is Charles Lane in this film in an uncredited speaking role?

    Has anyone else noticed that Charles Lane appears with his back to the camera in the scene where Paul Stewart warns his syndicate partners about not cheating him? The voice also seems to be his. He doesn't show up anywhere else in the film. I have not been able to find him associated with it on any credit listings, including the abbreviated IMDb cast list. I thought this was a pretty good genre film. It's always nice to see Paul Stewart in a bigger role. Don't recall ever seeing Abbe Lane in a film before. I really thought she was better than the other female lead, despite having less to do. Although her acting ability cannot really be assessed from this single role, I am surprised she did not have a lengthier career.
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    good late noir

    The best part of "Chicago Syndicate" for me was seeing Abbe Lane and Xavier Cugat! I remember them from television and their chihuahuas. In fact, I think they fought over them in the divorce.

    Dennis O'Keefe is Barry Amsterdam who goes undercover to get dirt on organized crime. An accountant has just been murdered as he was about to tell what he knew. A citizen's group sends in O'Keefe, with the promise of a $60,000 fee.

    Amsterdam wins the trust of the main man (Paul Stewart), and he sets out to find his secret ledger and anything else that will serve as evidence. He meets lovely Sue Morton, who turns out to be the sister of the accountant who was killed. She joins Barry in bringing down the criminals.

    In the late '40s and '50s, many films were made with a narration, as this one was. Usually they are pretty dry. This one wasn't, with some good scenes and a nice performance by O'Keefe. Abbe Lane plays the mobster's girlfriend, and she sings with. Benny Chico's (Cugat's) band. She was a knockout.
    7Handlinghandel

    hot stuff!

    This is a great little crime movie. It has a truly sleazy feel and is very well directed. Fred Sears! That guy knew how to turn out these trashy but effective crime exposes! Dennis O'Keefe, who seems a little down-at-the heels, is the lead. He goes undercover to blow the lid off a syndicate run by mama's boy Paul Stewart. With his eyes sunken and dark, Stewart is a highly effective villain (albeit a suave one.) His current girlfriend sings at a club he runs. We hear her sing, and she is pretty darn good. That's because she's played by Abbe Lane. Lane had a good vocal style and she knew how to be sewn into a glamorous dress. Real-life husband Xaviar Cugat is on-hand, too: He's her band-leader and is pining after her.

    Though she gets lower billing, the main female is really Allison Hayes. Yes: The star of the immortal "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman." Hayes does a fine job. She's an interesting presence: She looks like a meaner version of Jane Russell.

    The only distracting part of the movie is the O'Keefe character's name: Barry Amsterdam. It kept reminding me of a certain comic on a classic TV show about writers for a TV comedy ...

    O'Keefe had the goods, though. He is one of the best of all noir actors.
    6bmacv

    Late and derivative organized-crime drama shows slackening momentum of noir cycle

    There's little in the late noir Chicago Syndicate that hadn't already been done, and more memorably, in the cycle, but, given the limitations of its director and cast, it does its job. When a renegade syndicate bookkeeper is gunned down on a crowded street in broad daylight (incidentally triggering his wife's suicide), federal agents enlist Dennis O'Keefe, a forensic accountant working for the police, to infiltrate the underworld. In no time he's won the trust of boss Paul Stewart (whose start in movies was in Citizen Kane, as Raymond the sinister butler). Stewart idolizes his mother, who refuses to budge from his tough old neighborhood. But apparently she's the exception that tests his misogynistic rule (`Everything gets better with age, except women,' he observes).

    He's right to be wary, because women hold the tools to destroy him. His current trophy (Abbe Lane), who sings with bandleader Xavier Cugat in mob night spots, drinks too much and endures humiliation and beatings at his hands. But even an attempt to `scare the girdle off her' fails, as she holds incriminating microfilm, stashed away as her insurance policy. Her rival for his attentions (Allison Hayes) has a secret agenda: she's the orphaned daughter of the slain bookkeeper, nursing a vendetta. When she thinks O'Keefe can grease her way to the top, she throws herself at him (`Now you're romancing me like I was Liberace,' he puzzlingly tells her.) She becomes his helpmate – and decoy.

    In the style of the syndicate movies of the 1950s, in the wake of the Kefauver hearings on organized crime, there's an emphasis on the complex corporate structure of Stewart's illegal business operations. Too much exposition, however, is left to voice-over narration. And while the movie doesn't shy away from ugly incident, it's quite devoid of the atmospheric dread that distinguished, for instance, Fritz Lang's The Big Heat. O'Keefe, too, seems to have aged more than the eight years separating this movie from his similar role in Anthony Mann's T-Men, making it less of a surprise that his first movie role was in 1930. Chicago Syndicate holds interest less for its own sake than as evidence of how the noir cycle was running down, if not quite out; the same year offered Joseph H. Lewis' brilliant take on much the same territory, The Big Combo.
    8clanciai

    Dennis O'Keefe sorting out the followers after Al Capone with some wounds on the way

    Nothing happens in this rather bleak and sordid noir about Chicago gangsters, until Alison Hayes pulls the gun in the middle of the film, and then the action starts, amounting to rather interesting proportions. Dennis O'Keefe is no William Holden, who would have been the right actor for this role - Dennis is too fidgety. Paul Stewart on the other hand is perfect for his character, and the other ladies are good as well, Abbe Lane as the night club primadonna in decline with a catch on the boss, and his mother. The best scenes are with these women, while it is Alison Hayes who runs the show from half way on. The finale approaches the depths of "The Third Man".

    So although you yawn and look for something else to do meanwhile during the first half of the film, the second half must have all your attention. The dialog is riveting and splendid all the way, even Xavier Cugat gets a role to play and not only instruments, so it's after all a film well worth seeing.

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    • Anecdotes
      In the movie, Connie (Abbe Lane), trusted only in one person, Chico (Xavier Cugat); as a matter of fact, they were married in real life.
    • Gaffes
      Because on several occasions during the film, crime boss Arnie Valent brazenly and openly admitted his criminal culpability to undercover accountant Barry Amsterdam, the latter could have obtained the necessary incriminating evidence against Valent and his accomplices if the authorities have had Amsterdam wear a wire (a covert listening device). Such technological innovations were beginning to be incorporated into crime solving during the 1950s.
    • Citations

      Pat Winters: You were born for this job, Barry.

    • Connexions
      Referenced in They Came from Beyond - Sam Katzman at Columbia (2023)
    • Bandes originales
      One at a Time
      (uncredited)

      by Bernie Wayne and Ben Raleigh

      Sung by Abbe Lane

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    • How long is Chicago Syndicate?Alimenté par Alexa
    • When and where did the world premiere take place?

    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 23 septembre 1955 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Chicago Syndicate
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Field Museum of Natural History - 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Near South Side, Chicago, Illinois, États-Unis
    • Société de production
      • Sam Katzman Productions
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    • Durée
      1 heure 24 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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