Why can't they make movies like this today? In the first few moments, New York Confidential grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. Richard Conte is brilliant as the stone cold, high functioning, psychopathic hitman. Broderick Crawford nails it as a family man, with a big heart, who happens to be a mob boss. Great supporting cast and director. To say that the Godfather borrowed heavily from this movie is an understatement. I can't believe that I missed seeing this movie in the theater when it came out. I was only 3 years old at the time, but that's no excuse.

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

Hi Sideshow 🍕 thanks for your detailed commentary 🍕 may the sauce be with you 🍕🍕🍕

@aspenrebel

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's no excuse. You should've been out there on date night going to the movies.

@elderbob100

Жыл бұрын

@@PizzaFLIX Thanks PizzaFlix. I hope to watch more great movies on your channel and to write some more reviews.

@brianmccarthy5557

Жыл бұрын

Of course Conte played Barzini in "The Godfather". Roles like this made that believable.

@elderbob100

Жыл бұрын

@@brianmccarthy5557 I never really synced up with the Godfather. It was over my pay grade. It reminded me of the Royal families with the palace intrigue. Too many moving parts to keep track of. Obviously the problem is me and not the movie, which was a classic.

You can't go wrong with Broderick Crawford and Richard Conte together!

I would watch anything with Broderick Crawford and Richard Conte.

@bebop54

Жыл бұрын

me too 💯

@robertmorrisey7140

Жыл бұрын

I hear ya Chris. I feel the same about those two, great in anything they do! 🥸

@jeffolsen4983

Жыл бұрын

I was just going to write the same, then here was your comment. I'd add only either or, and throw in Mike Mazurki. I'll take him where I get him.

@rickhilt5176

Жыл бұрын

And Marilyn Maxwell!

@rickhilt5176

Жыл бұрын

A young Anne Bancroft. Nice!

Richard Conte - so very underrated ... but ... that makes him EVEN MORE appealing.

Crawford deserves far more recognition than he gets--a seriously great actor!

@danmalic6688

Жыл бұрын

he did....he won an Oscar

@deirdre108

Жыл бұрын

@@danmalic6688 didn’t know that. Thanks!

@doodeen

9 ай бұрын

Well said.A fantastic actor.Cheers Jim

@jiji1946

5 ай бұрын

@@danmalic6688 I didn't know that either. for....? All the King's Men, by any chance?

@criticalthinker8953

4 ай бұрын

​@jiji1946 yes, all the kings men

Not one wasted line of dialogue. Crisp and on point every time. Couldn’t even imagine this done in color……

Anne was 24 years old here. She had such a presence about her. Excellent film.

@melodiefrances3898

Жыл бұрын

I love her.

Good movie and great performance by Broderick Crawford!

@michaelsnider8611

Жыл бұрын

No computers, and no green screen, just plain good acting.

@antoniofernandesdequeiroga6197

Жыл бұрын

Broderick Crawford was a superb movie actor. (Brazil)

@blusnuby2

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps his BEST !

Daughter talking to Nick "Jump Fido, papa gives you liver" that's a great line. The food is another one "Salami on rye with a pickle" my mouth is watering.

@mdo5121

Жыл бұрын

sure was🤣

@roberthimmelman3816

Жыл бұрын

A kosher pickle

Bancroft is both stunning and powerful as a performer, more than the usual actor.👍👏

My mother always reminded me of Anne Bancroft. Ms. Bancroft was an excellent actress. I always enjoyed Broderick Crawford's films. This was a very good film.

@johnnypastrana6727

Жыл бұрын

How beautiful she was...

@dr.barrycohn5461

Жыл бұрын

Your mom was also a great actress. She was really a Russian spy and you never knew it until now.

We need to get the Film Noir genre back. This movie is among the best. And I'll never get tired of watching Ann Bancroft, I dare to add.

@zachbos5108

Жыл бұрын

Enjoying it with a pinot noir!

@martinsolomon5500

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know if we could have them back with SUV’s and mobile phones !!

@tommyvictorbuch6960

Жыл бұрын

@@martinsolomon5500 probably not.

@tommyvictorbuch6960

Жыл бұрын

@@zachbos5108 not a bad idea.

@shivasirons6159

Жыл бұрын

Tommy , " body heat " is modern noir! Great movie and Kathleen Turner 's hotter then the sun!

Conte was always a solid presence in these 1950s urban crime / mob melodramas.

Brod with another standout performance, backed by a SOLID supporting cast!

OMG. This was groundbreaking fresh and Frank dialog for it's day. Had no idea.

Thank you for another outstanding preamble. Your film introductions are greatly appreciated.

@auroracornejo4859

Жыл бұрын

Yes our minds can't remember all of the films best actand how they played those writers were for real imagination then.

@cattycorner8

Жыл бұрын

Yes I loved your intro @Pizza Flix

GREAT film. Mike Mazurka was born in the Appalachia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He graduated from Fordham Law School, became a pro wrestler, then an actor - and a damned good one. Obviously an exceptional man.

@karengarrison4237

8 ай бұрын

I agree. In his role, he sold it, always.

I remember watching this on WOR-TV in NYC in the 1970’s when I was growing up. It was the first movie I ever saw with Richard Conte. I became such a huge fan of his and routinely pored over the TV Guide every week to see what films he was in.

richard conte always gets good films to do.

Just grateful that there are so many truly superb films freely available on YT. My search method is typing in "films starring", rather than specific movies titles That way I get to see so many great productions I would never have thought of... Anne Bancroft was so charismatic and photogenic... My fantasy ending would be Nick saving Charlie by faking his death and driving him to South America, with his new bride, Kathy by his side...

Anne Bancroft and Richard Conte were excellent in this film. Thanks for uploading!

Hard to believe Richard Conte was a year older than Broderick Crawford.

@ricardocantoral7672

Жыл бұрын

IKR? Broderick Crawford looked about 20 years older than Conte.

Love these old movies! Remember going to the theater at age 4….the smell of popcorn! Watching Judy Garland on the big screen, and The Invisible Man was fun! I am 76 now, and am smiling at the memories! Walking the many blocks with my sisters seemed like miles to my four year old legs!

@MrMenefrego1

Жыл бұрын

Your mama let you walk all that way all alone?

@suzannerobbins6293

Жыл бұрын

@@MrMenefrego1 Of course not…my older sisters had to take me with them! 😂

@MrMenefrego1

Жыл бұрын

@@suzannerobbins6293 Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. So, you were the youngest child too? I had 3 older siblings who didn't want me anywhere near them, but every now and then, my parents insisted that they take me along. On one such occasion, when I was 7, my sister was so angry that she had to take me with her that she shoved me out of the car, leaving me to fend for myself on a deserted country road in a snowstorm. It took me over 4 hours to walk home; I got frostbite which still affects my old body to this day. Ah, yes, such good times.😖 I hope your sisters were kinder than mine. ❤

@suzannerobbins6293

Жыл бұрын

@@MrMenefrego1 They had to take me, and I don’t remember any problems! I had a younger brother but he was too little to go with us! I was 4, my sister 7 1/2 and my oldest 11 years old. This was the early 50s….streets with sidewalks, and safe neighborhoods where my mom felt good about us walking a few blocks alone! Things were so different! Wow….four hours for you to walk home seems a bit mean! I never had that anyway! We played together! Thanks for writing! 😊

@MrMenefrego1

Жыл бұрын

@@suzannerobbins6293 Yes, my sister wasn't the nicest person in the world. One thing I omitted from that story was that she actually tried to run me over. (yes, she is literally insane) Her hubby tried to have her institutionalized permanently, but they only kept her for six weeks. I just stay as far away from her as possible! I'm so glad you and your siblings had good and loving relationships! God Bless.

Love these old films,Crawford and Conte always great value

Wow, that was just too good. Once in a while, a film comes along and I wonder, how did I miss this until now? It's an experience I enjoy a few times a year. There are some great movies out there still waiting for me to discover them. Thanks PizzaFlix.

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

That is the Magic of PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you 🍕🍕🍕

Thank you for posting! A Film Noire is always a great movie for a drizzling Friday night. Great cast! ♥️♥️♥️

@MrMenefrego1

Жыл бұрын

YEAH!

@garylampkin4288

Жыл бұрын

Noir is a French word meaning "dark film". When you say "film noir", you're saying, "film dark film"... 😳just saying...

@jonsher7682

9 ай бұрын

@@garylampkin4288 No. Noire is he French word for "black."

@kevino4846

7 ай бұрын

Don't forget the pizza🍕🍕🍕

Very sharp to the point dialogue, good acting with raw emotion and a lesson about the evil greed for money and power.

Thanks. Richard Conte was always good.

Wow ! What a gem. Broderick Crawford immense, if a little over the top. Richard Conte every inch a top star. And ' Mrs. Robinson ', filling the screen with her beauty. Top noir. Thanks.

Three of my favorite actors in one movie!!! Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte and the ever-fabulous Anne Bancroft - doesn't get much better than that!

If its got "Mrs Robinson" in it, I'll watch it just for her.

@mtmtmtmt

Жыл бұрын

The Graduate.

Bancroft received the triple crown of acting by getting a Tony, an Emmy and an Oscar. She married Mel Brooks. A most talented actress and a real beauty.

@garyaugustus690

Жыл бұрын

Marrying Mel Brooks is proof that the way to a woman's heart is laughter. Provision, protection, loyalty, and communication all have there respective values to a woman, but you make her laugh and she'll stay with you forever... As Stevie Wonder sang as a kid long ago from his hit, 'Uptight (Everything Is Alright)' "...Can't give her the things that money can buy, but I'll never, never, never make my baby cry..." Or as Bancroft said herself, "He makes me laugh a lot…. I get excited when I hear his key in the door. It's like, 'Ooh! The party's going to start!"

@petjobedet4650

Жыл бұрын

Anne was a tour de’ force in this picture. Her performance is riveting even to this day.

@royalbohemian9757

Жыл бұрын

I had a crush on her. she was so beautiful in her older years to me.

@terminallyinquisitive1731

Жыл бұрын

She was beautiful, a great actress, can't keep eyes off her in this movie and many others - she had it all

@sylviasylvia8551

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Ms. Bancroft was a very elegant beauty with real talent. Bless her sharing her talent to us all.

ALWAYS grateful when you upload a film a dozen people haven't done so already.

Thank you, PizzaFlix, for performing a wonderful service to us, lovers of truly great film classics. May the gravy, thick n rich, be with 'ee, always.

Best line in the flick from Lupo's daughter.... "Jump Fido! Papa give ya' liver!"

Thank you as always! You take good care of us! ❤️👍🏻

Really top-notch noir, this. Crawford and Conte never disappoint and a great role for Anne Bancroft.

Considering the fact that there was very little known about the Mafia (La Cosa Nostra) at that time it’s a great movie!

That was one of the BEST!!!! Thanks for posting 🙂

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

Hi Cossie 🍕 Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you 🍕🍕🍕

Wowee wow-wow. Cool movie! Richard Conte and Broderick Crawford never disappoint, and boy was Anne Bancroft beautiful and such a great actress!

Pizzaflix rarely dissapoints; if you like gangster movies (I confess, I do), this one is an absolute gem. Sadly, disturbingly, the sneaky underhanded backdooring is eerily similar to what we are currently observing in DC.

1:16:46 Hey Mel! Ann over here kissing Richard!!, very good movie as expected considering Broderick Crawford and Richard Conti are in it, two very talented and seasoned actors who's performances are always top-notch, add to that combination a very young Ann Bancroft as I've never seen before especially this young, together they deliver exceptional performances that makes this film worth the watch, thank you PizzaFlix 🌟🌟🌟🌟

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

Hi Micheal 🍕Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you 🍕

@michaelsinclair3321

Жыл бұрын

@@PizzaFLIX 👍

This is indeed timeless. There will always be thugs be it gangsters or politicians of today. Thanks for sharing this wonderful movie

Really enjoyed this movie, pulled me right in.

This is truly an outstanding film depicting the inner workings of the crime syndicate back in the early 1950's. Richard Conte and Broderick Crawford are like TNT in this no holds barred action packed film. In my mind I ask myself, how come I haven't seen this film before. My answer..... I don't know. Thanks PizzaFlix for this 5 star film.

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found this outstanding film. 🍕🍕🍕

Broderick Crawford - a great actor.

Richard Conte, Broderick Crawford, Mike Mazurki and the beautiful Anne Bancroft are fabulous but it was also great to see character actor J. Carrol Naish and the lovely Marilyn Maxwell. Underrated classic.

Perfect casting. Richard Conte and Broderick Crawford - excellent performances. Ann Baxter was wonderful, too! Thank you for posting this great movie!!

@kathleenmckeithen118

Жыл бұрын

OOPs!! Ann Bancroft!!! Not Ann Baxter....

Love the spoken intro, sets the film as an event

What a Movie, I loved watching it 👍👍👍👍😃😃😃

Excellent as always Broderick Crawford

Brilliant - and extremely well-played! Thanks for posting!

1955...what an incredible year...a really great movie....thank you PizzaFlix...good job!!

Great cast and the director Russell Rouse was very competent.

Stunning level actors all at the top of there game. Beautifully directed.. Conte can always play your lover or killer? Take your choice girl's. Thanks 4 the showcase.

Thank you soo much for these great old movies, lm 68yrs old and remember watching this movie when l was young. Great stuff 🙂

The casting and the acting was brilliant. My accolades are about the script. With a few actors the movie's story line was clean, clear cut, and totally believable, how a syndicate gets engulfed in trouble. Trouble started slowly, almost unnoticed, with the government and the foreign investors... it snowballed from there, to the culmination. And it wasn't done with fanfares, with melodrama. It was all very realistic, real to the viewer. The pacing of the story: impeccable. Not one moment did I have to say "no, this couldn't have been that way." Smart writer(s), kudos to them. And sorry, I haven't finished. The character development was brilliant, too... the dizzy blondes, and the all-too-smart but overprotected daughter whose tragedy she could not avoid although she was protesting it with hands, feet and teeth. (So to speak). Her last scene she showed incredibly accurate displays of schizoaffective disorder. Even the play of her eyes were down pat. Brilliant, brilliant movie.

@Buisness1

9 ай бұрын

Right no. Brilliant script and played true to the core. All acting superb.

Very well done. Good writing and good acting from an impressive cast. The film gets high marks in all departments.

That scene where Bancroft throws herself at Conte is as intense as anything I've ever seen on film.

@kevino4846

7 ай бұрын

Take me! She wouldn't have to tell me twice😄

Wow. Just what I needed for a rainy Friday night. Many thanks

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

Hi Shelia 🍕hope you enjoy the film 🍕🍕🍕

TY Pizza Flix this should spice up my dreary afternoon

🤗🎉 Thank You PizzaFlix ! ! ! I've Been Wanting To See This Film For A While & Couldn't Find It . Crawford & Conte ! What A Combo ! 🎉🤗 . . . . . . . . . On A Side Note Broderick Crawford Talks So Fast He Would Have Been A Good Candidate For An Auctioneer 🎤🤑

@HeatherLikesArt

Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness he does talk really fast. There was one scene when they were in the office and he said a long string of words, it is so fast. I couldn't figure out what he said. 😂

@kewrock

Жыл бұрын

He talks so fast. When I first started watching reruns of Highway Patrol on KZread, I thought it was the film speed running too fast.

@evergreenthuja5275

Жыл бұрын

@@kewrock 🤣 Me Too ! I Have Too Set The Speed To .75 To Grasp On To What He's Saying

@evergreenthuja5275

Жыл бұрын

@@HeatherLikesArt Exactly ! I'm Going Whaaaa ? 🤣🤣

@steveweinstein3222

Жыл бұрын

I'm a huge of his, but I think he was a little manic here.

absolutely love these old movies

Broderick Crawford, classic talent.

Seeing Mike Mazurski today and Vito Scotti yesterday in an episode of Twilight Zone, Mr. Bevis. I can never see one without thinking of the other. They played a mad scientist and his flunky in an episode of Gilligan's Island.

I enjoyed that movie very much. Thank you for sharing.

Really, a hard hitting film, especially for the 1950s.

@steveweinstein3222

Жыл бұрын

Amazingly so. This can stand up to anything by Tarantino.

Fun Fact, Anne Bancroft's Grandfather was Architect Frank Lloyd Wright and he drafted plans for a Dollhouse for her when she was little.

@arthurlloyd6552

Жыл бұрын

Anne Baxter

@anairenemartinez165

Жыл бұрын

@@arthurlloyd6552 Wrong Anne

@angelcitygirl

Жыл бұрын

Not related at all.

@angelcitygirl

Жыл бұрын

@@arthurlloyd6552 Yes. Anne Baxter of Ten Commandments was the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright.

@serratograffiti

Жыл бұрын

@@anairenemartinez165 Not a nice Italian girl like Anne Bancroft.

@PizzaFlix, thank you for this excellent movie. I loved it. Powerful performances from all. I highly Roccomend it.

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

The return of Linda Rocco 🍕🍕🍕

@kewrock

Жыл бұрын

Hey, Nice name. Your last name is my first name.😉

@lindarocco9974

Жыл бұрын

PizzaFlix May the Cheese be with you my saucy friend! I've watched a couple of movies on your channel recently. I LOVE your channel.

@lindarocco9974

Жыл бұрын

@@kewrock thanks. Nice first name, very powerful! Do your friends call you Rocky or Rock?

@kewrock

Жыл бұрын

@@lindarocco9974 Rock or Rocco, never Rocky. People I meet and don't like, or don't care to get to know. I tell them I'm Jimmy.

Broderick Crawford was brilliant in everything he did.

@garylampkin4288

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, i still watch the reruns of Highway Patrol... 😀

@jeanbarlow8872

Жыл бұрын

Remember Night People

Crawford and Conte excellent as always, but it was Anne Bancroft who really 'got me' in this one.

one of the better crime films of the 50's.

Outstanding ! Just perfect.

A great film.Powerful performances from Richard Conte and Broadrick Crawford.Anne Bancroft what a beauty.Thanks for posting.Cheers Jim

That woman is fabulous ❤️❤️

Outstanding Film from Screenwriting to Acting! Conte & Crawford were exquisite! Also loved the moments of "NY-Italian-style" comedy relief. A brilliant gripping Piece of Cinema that doesn't let go. Thank you for this NYC🇮🇹🇺🇸🗽Gangster Gem!

Great noir film! Thanks for showing this Pizza!

I second every commenter on here. A terrific noir, pulls no punches, neat script, every second of film is used brilliantly. All of the actors are great. I love this film! Why doesn't "Noir Alley" show films like this?

In these early roles it appears the studio was grooming Bancroft into the next Ava Gardner or Ruth Roman. The lady had talent, brains and beauty.

When Conte had that quick scene in the wedding of The Godfather I thought he was a real Mafiosa. That shows how good he was.

Thanks for posting this!

Broderick Crawford is excellent in this, and Richard Conte plays the cold-hearted hitman, quite similar to his role in "The Big Combo" from the same year. Anne Bancroft does a good job of playing the daughter trying to break free from her mob boss father. I prefer these noirs from the 40s and 50s to much of what is produced by Hollywood today.

Love the old school films

Ah what a nice movie. It's like watching something from the Roman Empire, so classic.

@kweejibodali3078

Жыл бұрын

A little bit more recent... Less than 70 years

@zachbos5108

Жыл бұрын

@@kweejibodali3078 I know...just a figure of speech. Romans only had radio.

I liked this film. Thanks.

Great acting cast . Enjoyed it all . a big thumbs up !

convincingly good for a 1955 flick.

@keithdukes5990

Жыл бұрын

Films and the acting were far superior in 1955 as was American culture & society compared to today's garbage!!!🤔🧐🙄😊

“You know, Mr. Magellan, you have a penchant for other people’s affairs…” What an eloquent way to call someone, “nosy”. Excellent playwright. Thanks for this priceless gem. ❤❤❤

@kevino4846

7 ай бұрын

I thought about the writers when he turned around and used the same word while talking to Lupo. Well played.

Awesome movie! Thanks so much!

Great actors, acting, I remember Broderick Crawford, from the T.V. series highway Patrol, and his 10 four over. Good movie.

Excellent film, great cast. Richard Conte was always masterfully cool, and Ann Bancroft was second to none.

Thank you for the great movie. ❤

Really enjoyed this gangster movie. Thanks

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

Hi Liberty 🍕Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you 🍕🍕🍕

👏👏👏👏 I love love love this movie I saw it once before and couldn't remember the name of it now I will never forget it 👏👏👏👏☺️

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

Hi Dana 🍕 Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you 🍕

@danagantt5623

Жыл бұрын

@@PizzaFLIX hey I love your movies been subscriber for a good while and the list gets better. THANKS

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

@@danagantt5623the last 4 films were from a new supplier of my PizzaFLIX movies, so stayed tuned. Thanks again. 🍕

@danagantt5623

Жыл бұрын

@@PizzaFLIX ☺️👏 🎯 okay 😊

I enjoyed this Old Hollywood classic movie 🎞️ 🎞️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🎥🎬

one of my fave's Pizz' .💝...love Richard Conte .... great upload ...thanks so much 👌🏼 💥

This is what happens at the end , all mafia gangs either betrayed or killed because of their own crimes and I have seen many movies like this but this is one of the most Best Story and no one today's Hollywood movies doesn't have the guts to make like this movie story, thanks to the script writer, producer, director and all Crews who were related to make this film, Brilliance in every sense.

Thanks for the upload, I enjoy your intros. This was a good one, Perfect for this rainy afternoon. You provide such a good service, I really appreciate your channel.

@PizzaFLIX

Жыл бұрын

Hi Art - Thanks again 🍕🍕🍕

Wow! What a great movie! Thanks so much for posting?

Superb! Thank you Pizza!