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{{quote|'''''Joe Morse:''' Wouldn't you like to celebrate on a really large scale, Miss Lowry?''
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[[Abraham Polonsky]] came to prominence with the box-office success of ''[[Body and Soul (1947 film)|Body and Soul]]'' in 1947, and made his directorial debut a year later with '''''Force of Evil'''''. Acclaimed as a masterpiece of postwar American noir, the film critiques the capitalist ethos turned hard-boiled. Polonsky's unflinching portrait of two brothers caught in a downward spiral of corruption suggests comparison to the biblical story of Cain and Abel. Its eloquent prose, that some have likened to blank verse, drips with cynicism. [[John Garfield]] adds a virile edge as Joe Morse, the mob lawyer who tries to save his small-time bookie brother from financial ruin in a numbers racket takeover. As the film plunges deeper into an amoral abyss, the congested [[New York City]] of its opening frames gives way to a bleak landscape reminiscent of an Edward Hopper painting. Finally, the abyss swallows Garfield "down, down, down... to the bottom of the world."
''Force of Evil'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 1994.
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