Murder, Inc. is a 1960
gangster film starring
Stuart Whitman,
May Britt,
Henry Morgan,
Peter Falk, and
Simon Oakland. The
Cinemascope movie was directed by Burt Balaban and
Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was based on the true story of
Murder Inc., a Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s.
Falk plays
Abe Reles, a vicious thug who led the Murder Inc. gang and was believed to have committed thirty murders, for which he was never prosecuted.
The film was the first major feature role for Falk, who was nominated for a best supporting actor
Academy Award for his performance. In his 2006 autobiography,
Just One More Thing, Falk said that
Murder Inc. launched his career.
