The Lawbreakers

The Lawbreakers1963

The Lawbreakers is a 1961 film directed by Joseph M. Newman. Made in a film noir style, the crime drama is based on the pilot episode of the 1961 television series The Asphalt Jungle and stars an ensemble cast including Jack Warden, Vera Miles, Robe… more »



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Himself - Host/Narrator:
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, was assassinated. Two days later his alleged assassin was also shot down. A thousand miles away, in the intelligence unit of the Miami Police Department, a routine check was made to see if there were any indicates whether a particular penitentiary inmate had ever been associated with Lee Harvey Oswald. Their apparent political ideologies were at opposite poles; their backgrounds widely dissimilar. The routine investigation proved negative, but why was it made? The inmate had previous spoken of hatreds and violence and assassinations, but he was only a meter reader not a dangerous man. Another man who spoke of those same hatreds and violence was also not a dangerous man - just a paperhanger [cut to archive footage of Adolph Hitler making a speech before thousands of followers]

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