Murder, Inc. (1960 film)

Murder, Inc.
Title from the trailer
Directed by	Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg
Screenplay by	Irve Tunick and Mel Barr
Based on	the book "Murder, Inc." by Burton Turkus and Sid Feder
Produced by	Burt Balaban
Starring	Stuart Whitman May Britt Henry Morgan Peter Falk
Cinematography	Gayne Rescher, A.S.C.
Edited by	Ralph Rosenblum
Music by	Frank DeVol
Production company	Princess Productions
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	June 28, 1960 (1960-06-28)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$750,000[1]

Murder, Inc. is a 1960 American gangster film starring Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan and Peter Falk. Filmed in Cinemascope and directed by Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg, the film was based on the true story of Murder, Inc., a Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s.^[2]

Falk was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his first major feature role as Abe Reles, a vicious thug who led the Murder, Inc. gang and was believed to have committed 30 murders, for which he was never prosecuted.^[3] In his 2006 autobiography Just One More Thing, Falk said that Murder, Inc. launched his career.^[4]

This was the first film directed by Rosenberg, who later won acclaim for Cool Hand Luke (1967), and it launched Stuart Whitman's career as a leading man.

A highly fictionalized film on the same basic events titled The Enforcer (1951), starring Humphrey Bogart, was released in the United Kingdom with the title Murder, Inc.