SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE (1957)

SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE (1957) 103 minutes

RARE SCREENING! This fact-based racket busting saga set on New York City’s corrupt waterfront returns to the big screen after decades of absence! Richard Egan stars an idealistic assistant D.A. taking on both the murderous waterfront crooks headed by an amusingly feral Walter Matthau and the apathetic political bureaucracy of his own office. Egan’s case centers on eliciting the testimony of a murdered dockworker’s wife (Jan Sterling) despite the cultural tradition of never cooperating with the authorities and having a former district attorney (Dan Duryea) defending the mobsters. The all-star cast includes Julie Adams, Sam Levene, and a silver-haired Charles McGraw!