Directed by:
Fred F. SearsScreenplay:
Joseph HoffmanCast:
Dennis O'Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart, Xavier Cugat, Allison Hayes, Hugh Sanders, Al Capone, Bess Flowers, Bert Stevens, Harold Miller, Joe Ploski (more)Plots(1)
Not long after starring in Las Vegas Shakedown, Dennis O'Keefe headed eastward to appear in Chicago Syndicate. This time, O'Keefe is cast as honest accountant Barry Amsterdam, determined to get the goods on Windy City gangster boss Arnie Valent (Paul Stewart). Insinuating himself into Valent's confidence, Amsterdam quietly begins gathering evidence. For a while it looks as though Amsterdam will go the way of his predecessor in Valent's operation, who ended up sleeping with the fishes, but in films of this nature justice usually prevails. Allison Hayes, who later played the title role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, is quite effective in the normal-sized part of the daughter of a slain accountant, while Abbe Lane plays the obligatory mob mistress (Lane's then-husband , bandleader Xavier Cugat, is also in the cast). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Dennis O'Keefe
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Fury (1936)
Abbe Lane
USA
Best movies:
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
Totò, Eva e il pennello proibito (1959)
The Americano (1955)
Paul Stewart
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Xavier Cugat
Spain
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Allison Hayes
USA
Best movies:
Tickle Me (1965)
Mohawk (1956)
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
Hugh Sanders
USA
Best movies:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Storm Warning (1951)
Only the Valiant (1951)
Al Capone
USA
Best movies:
Zelig (1983) - a.f.
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Bert Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Harold Miller
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Joe Ploski
USA
Best movies:
Inherit the Wind (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Franklyn Farnum
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
William Challee
USA
Best movies:
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
The Black Book (1949)
Cimarron (1960)
Chris Alcaide
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
Illegal (1955)
Duel on the Mississippi (1955)
John Zaremba
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Human Desire (1954)
Charles Horvath
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Spartacus (1960)
Joseph Mell
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Cosmo Sardo
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
North by Northwest (1959)
Mark Hanna
USA
Best movies:
Illegal (1955)
5 Against the House (1955)
Man Without a Star (1955)
Richard H. Cutting
USA
Best movies:
The Mountain (1956)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)