The Human Jungle (1954)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Gary Merrill	...	Police Capt. John Danforth
	Jan Sterling	...	Mary Abbott
	Regis Toomey	...	Det. Bob Geddes
	Lamont Johnson	...	Det. Lannigan (Geddes' partner)
	Patrick Waltz	...	Det. Strauss (as Pat Waltz)
	Chuck Connors	...	Earl Swados
	Paula Raymond	...	Pat Danforth
	Emile Meyer	...	Police Chief Abe Rowan
	George Wallace	...	Det. O'Neill
	Chubby Johnson	...	Greenie (reporter)
	James Westerfield	...	Police Capt. Marty Harrison
	Florenz Ames	...	Leonard Ustick (mob leader)
	Claude Akins	...	George Mandy (henchman)
	Booth Colman	...	Wallace (mouthpiece at hearing)
	Henry Kulky	...	Matty (barkeeper-thug)

Storyline

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. He calls this a cop's war that is the same as a soldier's war with the difference being that people hate cops. His cause isn't helped when a rookie policeman accidentally kills an innocent bystander. And he has to protect police informer Mary Abbott from Swados, a killer in the hire of the man behind the petty mobsters. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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