{"id":40493,"date":"2025-11-13T07:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40493"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:09:10","slug":"the-undercover-man-1949-starring-glenn-ford-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40493","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Undercover Man&#8221; (1949) starring Glenn Ford \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z111325zview_undercoverman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"790\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Undercover Man <\/strong><\/em>(1949)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Joseph H. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Sydney Boehm, Malvin Wald <\/strong>(additional dialogue) based on <em>Undercover Man: He Trapped Capone <\/em>by F<strong>rank J. Wilson<\/strong> from a story outline by <strong>Jack Rubin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, Barry Kelley, David Bauer <\/strong>(as<strong> David Wolfe<\/strong>), <strong>Howard St. John, Leo Penn, Esther Minciotti, Angela Clarke, Anthony Caruso, Robert Osterloh, Kay Medford, Patricia Barry <\/strong>(as <strong>Patricia White<\/strong>) and <strong>Peter Brocco.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>TOLD WITH THE SNARL OF A MACHINE GUN!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Treasury Agent Frank Warren has been assigned to bring down the mob boss know as <em>Big Fellow<\/em>.\u00a0 Every witness or informent is terrified from testifying, paid off or found dead.\u00a0 Then Warren gets a lead from an unexpected source.<\/p>\n<p>Now <em>Big Fellow<\/em> has targeted Frank Warren and his wife to die.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Big Fellow<\/em> was of course based on Al Capone.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Undercover Man<\/em> marks James Whitmore&#8217;s feature film debut.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Penn is the father of actors Sean and Chris Penn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>The Undercover Man <\/strong><\/em>(1949) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z111325zview_undercoverman2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Undercover Man (1949) Director: Joseph H. 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