This film is set in post-War Alabama, in a city that serviced Ft. Benning, GA.
It's a semi-documentary, but the facts are so obscure people probably think this is the real story. Clean living crusaders take up against a corrupt gang who run prostitution and gambling on 14th Street. When they feel threatened, the gangsters start fighting back, killing some people, but eventually losing. Or something.
What is interesting is just how gritty this movie is for 1955. There are multiple uses of the N-word, a bunch of fights, an implied rape, a bunch of murders.
What doesn't work out well are the semi-"Documentary" scenes in the beginning of the film that tell you this is a "true" story. Besides giving away the plot, they aren't well shot and look kind of sloppy.
It's a semi-documentary, but the facts are so obscure people probably think this is the real story. Clean living crusaders take up against a corrupt gang who run prostitution and gambling on 14th Street. When they feel threatened, the gangsters start fighting back, killing some people, but eventually losing. Or something.
What is interesting is just how gritty this movie is for 1955. There are multiple uses of the N-word, a bunch of fights, an implied rape, a bunch of murders.
What doesn't work out well are the semi-"Documentary" scenes in the beginning of the film that tell you this is a "true" story. Besides giving away the plot, they aren't well shot and look kind of sloppy.