The Brothers Rico
The Brothers Rico

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- 68/100 based on 1,513 votes
  • Released: 1957
  • Runtime: 92 mins
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  • Studio: William Goetz Productions
  • Genres: Crime

Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again.... (Full plot summary below)

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Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again.

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Classic Film and Television - 7/10 by Michael E. GrostHarrowing gangster thriller shows high cost of blindly trusting authority.
User Review - 8/10 by gerardo rSuper solid. It is kind of a mix of 30s gangster and 50s noir movie. Great direction, actors, filming and a really classic cynical story.
User Review - 6/10 by Mara B"Well, you can't buck the system Eddie." This melodramatic gangster picture is pretty much the origin of all modern familial mob dramas (especially the work of Martin Scorsese who does a fine intro on the dvd). Richard Conte's reformed mob accountant is tricked into hunting down his squealer brother Johnny and he soon discovers there's no way out but war...Honestly, there's a little too much hope for this kinda narrative and I never really connected to Conte's plight. Decent, but I prefer the film's offspring. VF.
User Review - 6/10 by Art STo me, Richard Conte seems the epitome of the noir villain, probably due to his evil role as the crime boss in The Big Combo (1955). So, when he shows up as a mob accountant turned small business man named Eddie Rico, you aren't quite sure where he stands. As it turns out, he's on the straight-and-narrow - but his younger brothers are still involved with the mob. And when a once-fatherly mob kingpin asks Eddie to find his brothers (who have gone missing) so that they can be "protected", Eddie naively helps out (persuading his aging mum to tell what she knows). Of course, mob kingpins are never that generous and nefarious ulterior motives soon appear; Eddie's safe family life (he and his wife are about to adopt a child) is soon jeopardised. Director Phil Karlson doesn't do anything fancy visually with the material (and Martin Scorsese notes this in his introduction to the film, arguing that this makes it come across tougher); but he's an old hand at noir and it shows (previous films include Scandal Sheet, 1952; Kansas City Confidential, 1952; 99 River Street, 1953; and The Phenix City Story, 1955). This isn't top tier but it's solid.

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