Target: The Corruptors (TV Series) Pier 60 (1961) User Reviews

Another very appealing story.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 14 January 2023]

Otto Kleburg, better known as Dutch is running a racketeering racket at the shipping yard, but is also guilty of murder and corruption, Marino plans to bring him down.

I think it's perhaps fair to say that the plot is quite similar to the one from the previous episode, with Marino applying pressure to a witness, in order to prosecute a pretty nasty mob boss.

That was quite some dinner party!! It's so well made.

It's another very watchable episode, with an interesting plot, great set of characters, and a real sense of atmosphere.

Considering it was made way back in 1961 it holds up well, in terms of visuals and acting, Jack Clugman was excellent as Dutch, a commanding presence on screen, I really liked Karen Steele too, who played his wife. Some cracking characters here, Cat lady definitely one of them.

This is definitely becoming my Saturday evening viewing, it fits the slot perfectly.

7/10.

Pier 60

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 14 January 2023]

The second episode again highlights how much racketeering and corruption affects the ordinary consumer with higher prices. Someone has to pay the price for crime.

In the shipyards of New York, there are sweetheart deals to keep everything moving.

If the port owners, the shipping companies do not pay up. There would be no labour to move the goods.

The unions and organised crime seem to be working hand in hand.

Paul Marino finds that no one in the docks area is willing to talk and he is not welcome.

Ambitious hoodlum Otto "Dutch" Kleburg (Jack Klugman) is running the show. The only person he is scared off is his ambitious, glamorous and social climbing wife.

When Otto tries to replace a veteran dock leader with one of his cronies fresh out of jail. It leads to murder. An eyewitness indicates that Otto and his wife could be eating dinner alone.

The early episode gives a slight hint of a dark side with Marino. Cajoling a witness who might be a drunk, suffering from mental illness to give evidence against a gangster.

Rough waterfront gangland expose

[searchanddestroy-1 · 18 June 2015]

I am so excited to have begun to watch this tremendous TV series from the early sixties. This was an era where there were legions of films about underworld, crime syndicates and mafia: PORTRAIT OF A MOBSTER, RISE AND FALL OF LEGS DIAMOND, MURDER INC, BACK HAND, PAY OR DIE, PURPLE GANG, MAD DOG CALL...This TV show is in this line. Exposes shown in the toughest way possible, fierce, brutal. This story takes place on piers, docks where, as everywhere in the world, gigantic shipments of all kinds of merchandises pass through. And that means mammoth amount of money, including smuggling, black mailling, corruption. Billions of dollars meaning underworld and crime organizations. Nothing really new here, but if you crave for this kind of stories and atmospheres, don't miss it. Quality of those viewings is very good and the directing as well as the acting is powerful. Stephen Mc Nally, Jack Klugman, Vic Morrow, Victor Buono are there at their peak here. I'll probably comment other épisodes from this series.