New York Confidential (1955) | Full Film Noir Movie | Broderick Crawford | Richard Conte

The kill-or-be-killed world of organized crime is the focus of this hard-hitting expose from the Oscar-nominated writing team of Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene. Broderick Crawford is the NYC mob boss dealing out death as the answer to every crisis--from a minor member of his own syndicate, to a Washington lobbyist, to his own hired killers! "Considerable brutality as well as sex... One's attention [is] held tight from start to finish" (Harrison's Reports).
Cast: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft , Marilyn Maxwell, J. Carrol Naish
Director: Russell Rouse
#movie #50s #vintage #blackandwhite

[@ronaldstrange8981]

I defy any crime film lover not to appreciate and enjoy this excellent film. All round good performances; excellent script and the action never slowed or stopped. I loved it and at the age of 87, I have seen probably hundreds of crime movies over the years. Trust me, give it a whirl. You will not be disappointed. England, January, 2024.

[@peterpiper7441]

87 and still watching the classics. Hats off to you!

[@richardabrams6070]

Ditto from another 87 year old film noir buff!

[@adrianrichards247]

I hope you’re still here to watch..

[@williambrown8654]

@ronaldstrange8981 yep u exactly right

[@lifeistooshorttospendworrying]

It’s such a pleasure to read when older folks such as yourself comment on movies like these, but moreover how today, we’re all able at any age to watch these movies and share in the same joy they brought audiences generations ago thanks to platforms like KZbin. Many of us who are younger would have never had the opportunity to see gems like these and in such abundance if only for the past ten years.

[@RBAILEY57]

Broderick Crawford was great in anything!

[@StanWarren-l7t]

And this, arguably, was his BEST performance....

[@adimeter]

Whew. Movies from the old days. In this day and time of repeat recycled themes, nothing could be better than these old movies. Thank you to Sprocket Vault.

[@assassin8636]

Recycled? I wouldn't even say that not everything is recycled

[@adimeter]

@@assassin8636 not referring to this movie type.

[@lizlocher3612]

Conte was super smooth in that first hit!!!

[@FractalRaver]

I love that I can still find old noir films on YT. It’s amazing, because the alternative is such crap

[@dpagain2167]

This is not Film Noir. It is just a very good gangster movie.

[@Grisostomo06]

Anne Bancroft, what a doll. She was a fashion model before acting.

[@AccentShmaccent]

@@Grisostomo06 yep… an incredible face!

[@Chugwater_Cowboy]

@@Grisostomo06 Mrs. Mel Brooks!

[@jameshogan6142]

She is smoking hot in this film and oozes sex appeal.

[@JohnMoreno1958]

Intriguing story. "Dames" and all...😂❤

[@lonzo61]

Yeah, you betcha....dames....with gams, I tell ya. I love the dames, dats fer sher.

[@SantiagoBernebeu]

What an absolutely brilliant and wonderfully scripted film that was! Filled with drama, double cross, intrigue and typical gangland behaviour, it was great to see the likes of Richard Conte and Broderick Crawford delivering their usual quality. Film producers of today could learn a lot from their counterparts from that era, on how to make a film truly worth watching. This was good old fashioned acting without the special effects and going OTT. Many thanks for posting.

[@lemorab1]

Broderick Crawford really makes you believe he's a mob boss. Ditto Richard Conte. And a very young Anna Maria Italiano, aka Anne Bancroft! Fast moving, great script, believable performances.

[@j.criquette3334]

You write as if you're the first to discover these films. Many directors of today are quite open about their debt to film noirs of the 40s and 50s, most notoriously Martin Scorcese and Quentin Tarrantino.

[@SloofmanTV]

This is GOLD!

[@mavkuhn]

Absolutely brilliant! Watched it twice in a row.

[@QueenVelveeta]

This is a terrific movie. Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, and Anne Bancroft shine.

[@anthonyvalenti9093]

Good mobster script! Bancroft/Conte are great. Gangsters, corrupt politicians. Somethings never change.

[@johna.4334]

Biden clan

[@adimeter]

I was born in 1948 and never knew how great Richard Conte was. I will not forget him now.

[@ant7936]

What an excellent film with great screen actors! Thanks.

[@Crezelltree4261]

Love those cars.

[@ricardolorrio8228]

OK.. this is 10 out of 10 real Noir... every thing is here that is Noir... great B movie crime drama

[@ronaldfullerton1954]

A movie in Black and White...just got better with time as other mob movies learned from this...

[@theotterguy]

The word is noir.

[@ricardolorrio8228]

@@theotterguy corrected

[@cecildemille190]

Great movie. Among the best films noir, no question about it.

[@seanengland2060]

I have watched and enjoyed lots and lots of this genre and this one must be in the top 3 for quality, pace, stereotypes and storyline. It's like a great Humphry Bogart flick but on speed! Absolutely fantastic.

[@elhache7160]

Yessss!! Ive been looking for this film!! Awesome!!!

[@dbona4445]

Excellent, my first time. Broderick adds to any film.

[@lizlocher3612]

Besides, Broderick Crawford is ALWAYS good n funny n tough n a little classless, but vehement in his mob characterizations, n Richard Conte is one of my favourite film noir stars n leading men!!!

[@Jacktors]

Anne Bancroft is a wonderful actress

[@doriskarloff964]

Fantastic movie - as others have commented. Thanks for posting.

[@shan4078]

Such a great movie.I can't believe I have never seen it before. Thank you so much !

[@longbranch11207]

Oh thanks for posting. I was not expecting to shed tears 😭

[@wolfwilliams]

Bancroft was such a fabulous, natural actor. What a performance.

[@ellenringer5236]

This is an excellent movie. They do not make them like this anymore.

[@minkeuk549]

Real mobster👍

[@nicolebrown5722]

Sure dont

[@adimeter]

Real acting and great dialogue.

[@dmr4450]

Great movie! Boy these old flicks are pure gold.❤

[@glennstenbergkvist5971]

Tremendous entertainment! Great editing and dialogue. Beautifully shot black and white. Excellent film with many well-drawn characters.

[@nancycatania7763]

Excellent movie! Great acting! Thanks for posting!

[@robertberns3661]

Great movie, Crawford speaks so rapidly, did anyone else notice?

[@mlconlanmeister]

10-4,10-4!! (Highway Patrol)

[@alejandro954]

Yes, he speak very fast

[@Ourladyrules]

Great movie 🎥👍

[@13699111]

Great movie great cast of actors

[@syncue5411]

Richard Conte true gangster in this one. Loyal button-man. I’ve never seen this. Absolutely great film. Thanks for posting it

[@TheSprocketVault]

You're welcome!

[@ronaldfullerton1954]

Richard Conte was Bardzini in the Godfather...he could played the Godfather part just as Good as Al Pacino...smooth actor...

[@demejiuk5660]

@@ronaldfullerton1954 That actually blew my mind.

[@AbdulHameed-dd4ez]

😊… brilliant! As close to real life as you can get…including the superb acting😊.

[@DouglasDeal-oj9rw]

Fabulous movie.

[@brentritchie6199]

What a powerful actor Broderick Crawford is he really made this movie along with a great cast.

[@joseortega-us6rn]

Nothing but a bunch of lousy Crooks. The best quote of the movie. at 26:06.

[@anisaskcirmoht57]

Anne Bancroft was absolutely stunning

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

I have to see her Eyes 'talk' again

[@rayvanett3093]

@@anisaskcirmoht57 she was beautiful in the graduate.

[@AH-yu2pi]

Awe man, this movie is great. 👍🏿

[@DanielLee-yu1li]

Fantastic. 😊❤

[@kathylynch9732]

I don't usually watch mobster movies, but this was really good. Highly recommend.

[@MichaelFury2089]

What a cast, what a film. I can’t believe I never saw this until tonight. Crawford’s portrayal of Lupo might be the best of a gangster I’ve seen.

[@rayrussell6258]

Excellent film noir, one I've somehow overlooked and never watched. Thanks Sprocket Vault.

[@TheSprocketVault]

You're welcome!

[@voltairebanquirigo1119]

Wish we could have more of these classic noir movies and anne Bancroft was magnificent...a very different actress from her later movies...glad I've come across this film kudos

[@booklover3959]

Totally excellent movie....so realistic I am surprised it got made back then. And the names Charlie, Albert, and Ben were no accident. This came out two years before Albert Anastasia was killed in a barber shop....I wonder if he saw it.

[@gorge5412]

Like you, I was also thinking about the AA link.

[@stephentoon5034]

One of the best films I've ever seen.

[@johnzajac9849]

Later, Anne Bancroft, aka Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, age 25 in 1955, married famous film director Mel Brooks.

[@edwinagray4373]

Yep!

[@Anne.2024]

Thank you

[@scottjustscott127]

Excellent movie!!! Oh the days of film noir! One thing that has always bothered me about these great movies of the forties and fifties are the great soundtrack composers and talented studio musicians that played beautiful complex arrangements that no one talks about. These people were true unsung heroes. Without them the movie would be missing a major part of the movie. Such is life.

[@user-tg3tj2nq6v]

I thought it was excellent. Conte is brilliant. I found out that he was Barzini in the Godfather.

[@nicolebrown5722]

No shit thankyou

[@adimeter]

Oh wow! Thanks for that.

[@Ny-kelCameron]

Five minutes in and I'm surprisingly hooked.

[@ruthnaranjo344]

I love Classic Movie, thank you for sharing this excellent film.💙🕊🌟

[@TheSprocketVault]

You're very welcome

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

TY The Sprocket Vault for making my day! Somehow, I never heard of this film, but it has 2 of my favorite actors in it, so a rare find. Bancroft, Conte & Crawford make it a powerhouse of a film. 1080HD with a quality film like this is a treat, too. I will rewatch it soon- I think Bancroft says more with her Eyes than many other actors. Don't read this until you see the movie: (About running of a road with no skid marks- I've dodged Deer at the last second without having time to hit the brakes.) TY!

[@adimeter]

All three were great actors. I'm so pleased to have seen Richard Conte in this rare form. I'd like more like this.

[@ronaldstrange8981]

Thank you P.P. Appreciated.

[@phyllishannah7203]

Broderick Crawford was always terrific in every movie or show ❤

[@thisisme3238]

Really enjoy these older b&w movies...glad you came up on my feed. You just got a new subscriber!

[@TheSprocketVault]

Welcome aboard!

[@thisisme3238]

@@TheSprocketVault thank you, looking forward to more videos too.

[@hertzair1186]

Mike Mazurki was a the perfect tough guy gangster. Went from lawyer to wrestling to the screen.

[@adimeter]

Thank you for that history.

[@ronaldstrange8981]

Loved him as Moose Malloy with Dick Powell. Remember?

[@tim.timothy.brennan]

Excellent!

[@damin9913]

I love watching Black & White films they are peaceful and magical 😊

[@KhaizerRecovers]

I was born 5 decades too late, wish I could've lived in this era. Awesome film by the way.Greetings from the Philippines 🇵🇭🖐🏻.

[@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk]

You'd have to been born between 1890-1920s to have been part Golden Age of gangerism.

[@victoriabarclay3556]

Fun B movie! Love film noir! Ann Bancroft. Wow

[@Apeksim]

Richard Conte was actually older than Broderick Crawford while filming this. Yet, having Crawford playing the elder somehow still fits

[@13muller9]

The difference was the hair line!!!

[@alexcampbell3032]

​@@13muller9 And the waistline.

[@philbenfell2984]

Conte was also a year older than the actress who played Crawford's secretary who said the line, "If only I were younger" to Conte as she admired him in his new suit

[@BarlowPalminteri]

How Don Barzini made his bones. Coppola must have drawn volumes from this. One assasination attempt looks just like the hit on Vito in GF I. So gangster!

[@nicolebrown5722]

Yup

[@johnmiltonda583]

Also my reaction: "Look!" I yelled at my screen, "Coppola has 'stole' this exact image for The Godfather!" 1:04:24

[@ronaldfullerton1954]

Victor Conte ...Ann Bancroft saying good night....at her apartment...with no words...nice scene

[@illadrobici]

Acting is always changing onscreen. In the time this movie was made, actors were still oriented to working on stage, where an actor must exaggerate. In fifty years, people will be able to pick out stylistic phoniness in the films of today. It's always changing, you just don't notice it contemporaneously because the style of acting today is in sync with what passes as real.

[@AndreaPancia1]

Nice script and actors. Love it

[@TheTaoofEternalWar]

I had never seen a young Anne Bancroft in a movie before. What a beautiful young woman she was. Deep breathe, sigh.

[@paulsolon6229]

Ugh

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

Her Eyes are just crazy busy, and with her body language, they emphasize every word she says.

[@johna.4334]

'Bout time you take a cold shower.

[@ronaldfullerton1954]

Ann Bancroft was Mrs. R obinson...the seducer in The Graduate 60s movie

[@markbahouth2713]

Bancroft, eyes like big black Olives .

[@alistairsavoury1074]

Really really good movie......thoroughly enjoyed!

[@rustyjames6971]

crawford plus conte equals must watch. thanks for posting.

[@randyacuna5643]

Nobody then or now ever made crime films better then Warner Brothers.

[@ernestoortiz4797]

You're a beautiful dame lris ,one of the best I've seen and you treat me like it was Christmas eve. But no thanks, I see through you like those silk dresses you wear. Wow. Love this dialogue. These old movies are the greatest. 👏👏👏

[@ver251209]

Ahead of it's time when. I didn't know the inner workings of the mob was known until the late 60's and 70's. The meeting of the bosses to organise a hits trope etc..

[@j.criquette3334]

This is a competently crafted Grade B film until Anne Bancroft enters. She eats the screen.

[@robertbruner7429]

Enjoyable from start to finish!

[@GPW787]

Broderick Crawford was terrific. Very believable as a tough, corrupt crook.

[@martinhall932]

Would have been interesting if Rodney Dangerfield was cast as Lupo...

[@nicolebrown5722]

Hahaha

[@lizlocher3612]

Had to find a film noir to fall asleep to at 4:40a.m. cuz otherwise, my mind races too much in critique of any other type movies I haven't yet seen, n I totally hate anything made after 2000 unless it's Johnny Depp. Since he's not on for free, I go to my all time most elegant, interesting, beautiful n cool movies ever made "the film noir" genre.

[@terminator7733]

Wow what a movie

[@davewhiteside6698]

Charlie's not really dead. He changed his name to Dan Matthews and joined the Highway Patrol! Ten four?

[@SantiagoBernebeu]

Hahahahaha.......Ten Four.

[@None-zc5vg]

Crawford was so fond of the booze when making "Highway Patrol" that he couldn't be filmed at the wheel on the real highway; it had to be done on private roads.

[@johna.4334]

"Leave your blood at the bank, not on the road"

[@asullivan4047]

Uncle Broderick portrayal as a gangster was terrib!e-!!!🤔.

[@xmillion1704]

@@davewhiteside6698 Haha When I read my name, and that of my father also, your comment caught my attention.

[@domingoangulo3075]

Thanks....

[@67lionsoflisbon37]

Ann Bancroft so beautiful. Great cast in this film. Very entertaining and enjoyable.

[@MaureenKelly-p8d]

What a fantastic film….

[@Century2008]

Cold steel vs. Iron Mountain. When the two forces work together, and when they collide, poetic justice Unstoppable meet immovable object.

[@terryscott2007]

Still better than 99% the movies made today 😉

[@jessaca]

This was good

[@markbuckley8675]

Larceny, Inc. is my favorite movie with Broderick Crawford.

[@lizlocher3612]

Tastes like something you put wallpaper on wit!!! Broderick Crawford quip#1 - funny!!!😊

[@geneva760]

Great movie. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA

[@cornsyruptrucker]

This is the first noir film I've watched and im not too far in but it's got some really good laughs (not sure if it's supposed to be funny tho). Thanks for posting!

[@donitaforrest9064]

The Syndicate just goes by WEF now, otherwise known as The Schwab Mob.

[@jimcrawford3185]

Or the Trilateral Commission

[@joelwalker6603]

Club of Rome doesn't get a mention?

[@cweakley]

I wish James Gandolfini had lived long enough to remake this film as Charlie Lupo. Who would you have chosen for the roles of his daughter Katherine and Nick Magellan?

[@stephenrichards7461]

Enjoyed the film immensely. However it always strikes me as unusual that they never close their curtains and blinds at night. Crawford (Lupo) gets shot in an assassination attempt yet his curtains are wide open as in daytime. Makes it so easy for the shooters. So many films are like this, especially film noirs.

[@kiwitrainguy]

Then when his protection arrives in the house, he gets shown to his room and Lupo stays downstairs, still with the curtains open, as you say.

[@classybronxite]

This is the template for the movie Scarface with Al Pacino. Wow

[@FrankLowe1949]

One of the best.❤❤❤

[@TheSprocketVault]

Glad you liked it!

[@infraredruby2]

Zippo lighter in the opening scene put out a flame like the Hindenburg.

[@snarflatful]

I thought Broderick Crawford only talked like that in Highway Patrol. Rat-a-tat-tat, machine gun style.

[@hasanfade5376]

Thanks ❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹

[@TheSprocketVault]

Thank you too!

[@davidnwosu2983]

Great Movie -- Nice Mob film

[@jzzft11]

Liked everything about it except the Broderick Crawford character - the way it was written, not Crawford's performance- he's a peerless actor - but you cant rise above your material. The whole " he's a mob boss but a decent guy at heart" characterization didn't even come close to holding water w me though Crawford did as well as could be done with the material he had to work with. The rest of the characters and performances were all excellent though. Really liked Conte and Bancroft and the direction and photography and supporting character performances and pacing were all very good held my interest. Wish they'd done a better job with the lead character ( or secondary lead if you consider Conte's character the lead ) though. So many better portrayals of mob bosses in movies. Not comparing to the Godfather- there is plenty of other not as great portrayals that still are way better than this Lupo character not to mention characters like Willie Stark who isnt a mob boss but a political boss. Anyone who wants to see what Crawford can do with a portrayals of a morally ambiguous powerful man should go watch All The Kings Men immediately if you haven't seen it

[@gorge5412]

As you know, Crawford won an Oscar for his performance in ATKM.

[@ronaldfullerton1954]

Lupo character is flawed because thst is the theme of the movie...there is no Godfather hero in this movie...the theme is crime does not pay...the mob eats itself and every one it toutches

[@binbashbuddy]

The salami on rye and kosher dill was a funny running gag.

[@corallewis3093]

Love B. Crawford, I first saw him in "Born Yesterday" with J. Holliday and W. Holden..