The Human Jungle
Crime
Thriller
The inside police story !
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
1954-10-03
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Cast
Director
Joseph M. Newman
Gary Merrill as John Danforth
Jan Sterling as Mary Abbott
Regis Toomey as Bob Geddes
Lamont Johnson as Detective Lannigan
Patrick Waltz as Detective Strauss
Chuck Connors as Earl Swados
Claude Akins as George Mandy
Paula Raymond as Pat Danforth
Emile Meyer as Abe Rowan
Henry Kulky as Matty
Chubby Johnson as Greenie
James Westerfield as Marty Harrison
Booth Colman as Wallace
Leo Cleary as Karns
Don Keefer as Detective Cleary
George D. Wallace as Detective O'Neill
Joe Turkel as Delinquent Hood
Marjorie Bennett as Mrs. Lee
Marie Blake as Mrs. Ashton
Ford Rainey as Jones
Bess Flowers as Dining Patron
Anna Navarro as Waitress (uncredited)
Sandra Warner as Twin Stripper #1 (uncredited)