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Bookmark this pageThe Garment Jungle (1957)
Director: Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich
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From Time Out Film Guide
Cut from familiar noir cloth - all eerie ceiling fans and empty elevator shafts expressionistically shot and lit - The Garment Jungle's off-the-peg plot concerns a coming-home Korean war veteran's discovery of foul play in the family firm and political gangsterism on either side. It's a sort of 'pro-labour' (Aldrich's term) On the Fashion Front, a radical retort to On the Waterfront's anti-union allegory three years earlier (both films were Columbia releases, both were set in New York, and both cast Cobb as a proto-capitalist patriarch). Uncredited director Robert Aldrich was replaced by Sherman only one week before shooting ended for his refusal to tone down a tough screenplay. In spite of Sherman's efforts, though, The Garment Jungle makes latter-day labour films like F.I.S.T., Norma Rae and Blue Collar look comparatively unstarched.Author: PK
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- paul barrett said...
- Posted on Nov 05 2009 22:16 Dug the film as a teeneager. Seeing it again some 50 years on. It remains an excellent film. With a refreshing pro Union semi Socialist stance. That I missed first time round.Very welcome addition to my noir collection.
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Cast & crew
Director: Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich
Producer: Harry Kleiner
Cast: Lee J Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia, Joseph Wiseman, Wesley Addy full cast
Genre(s): Film Noir
Duration: 88 mins
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