Shakedown (1950)
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies