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The Big Operator

Goons! Torch Killers! Labor Racketeers!

Aug. 01, 1959

01:31:00

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Overview:

During the 1950s, a corrupt labor union boss and the mob silence all those who witness their shady activities but an honest union member threatens to testify in front of a Senate Committee, thus becoming a murder-target.

Director: Charles F. Haas

Writer: Robert Smith, Paul Gallico, Allen Rivkin

Cast: Mamie Van Doren, Joey Forman, Norm Grabowski, ...

Genre: Crime, Drama

Description

Ruthless union leader "Little Joe" Braun (Rooney) is due to face questioning from a Senate committee. On the night preceding the inquiry, he sends a hit man, Oscar "The Executioner" Wetzel, to kill a witness named Tragg and steal incriminating documents in Tragg's possession at a factory.

The union has two very different factions, and one group are surprised to find the other on strike when they arrive at work. Demanding a meeting with Braun it is clear that unless they toe the line they are out. McAfee is thrown out of the union allegedly because his dues are not up to date.

Factory workers and friends Bill Gibson and Fred McAfee are accidental eyewitnesses to Wetzel meeting with Braun shortly after the crime. Braun pleads the Fifth Amendment during his Senate testimony and vehemently denies knowing the mob enforcer Wetzel. But with a perjury charge facing him, Braun realizes that Gibson and McAfee could potentially put him behind bars.

A campaign of intimidation against the two men begins. They are harassed at work and then fired on false grounds. McAfee is set afire and nearly dies from the burns. Gibson and wife Mary panic after their son Timmy is taken captive.

Gibson, who had been blindfolded in Braun's car, recreates and retraces with great difficulty the way to a hideout where Timmy is being held. After fighting and subduing Wetzel and his accomplices, Gibson and the authorities can't find Braun or the boy and are about to give up when they spot Braun's cigar, still burning in an ashtray. They find him cowering in a closet with the boy, then drag him away to jail.

Director: Charles F. Haas

Writer: Robert Smith Paul Gallico Allen Rivkin

Cast: Mamie Van Doren Joey Forman Norm Grabowski Mel Tormé Ray Anthony Mickey Rooney Jackie Coogan Steve Cochran Ziva Rodann Jay North Don Barry Jim Backus Leo Gordon Lawrence Dobkin Jr. Ray Danton Billy Daniels Charles Chaplin Vampira

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