T Men paid tribute to treasury officials, the heroes of this one are customs officials. They are fighting drug smugglers in the form of Yul Brynner – in his first movie role and with hair! He’s very effective, the best thing about the movie.
Scott Brady, the bland hero from He Walked By Night, plays the bland hero here – you find yourself longing for Denis O’Keefe! Indeed, all the police heroes are bland, it’s hard to remember them at all – whereas you do remember Brynner, and the guy who plays a Charles Laughton-impersonating criminal.
The biggest surprise comes 60 minutes in when Brady, who has gone undercover, is busted and shot by the baddies, watched by another cop (Richard Hober) – a reprise of the moment in T Men but still something I wasn’t expecting, which is more than you can say for most of the rest of the film. Hober has to go undercover himself for the last section and finally gets his man. I enjoyed the location footage of the New York ports.
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