man he knows as Tom Clancy—Damico is given a tip by the bartender Smoothie, who offers to drive Damico to meet the long-sought Blackie. Once the two men are at the mob boss's office of operations, Damico is shocked when Smoothie reveals that he is actually Blackie. A gunfight ensues, Blackie is wounded but escapes, and goes to a nearby hospital, where, under a new identity, he is admitted to have his wound treated. Damico's fiancee Mary, whom the mob had kidnapped earlier and had injured while interrogating her at Blackie's office, is taken to the same hospital. When Damico later visits her, the recovering Blackie confronts the couple in Mary's hospital room. He pulls out a pistol from his hospital robe's pocket. Just as he is preparing to kill the couple, a pair of police snipers in a nearby building fatally shoot Blackie as a stands near the hospital room's window. Cast Broderick Crawford as Johnny Damico Betty Buehler as Mary Kiernan Richard Kiley as Thomas "Tom" Clancy Otto Hulett as Police Lt. Banks Matt Crowley as Smoothie Neville Brand as Gunner Ernest Borgnine as Joe Castro Walter Klavun as Police Sgt. Bennion Frank DeKova as Culio Lynn Baggett as Peggy, Tom Clancy's wife Jean Alexander as Doris, Clancy's sister Ralph Dumke as Police Commissioner John Marley as Tony Charles Bronson as Jack, a Longshoreman (uncredited) Jay Adler as Russell, the Hotel Clerk (uncredited) Emile Meyer as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited) Duke Watson as Radford (uncredited) Carleton Young as District Attorney (uncredited) Production Under the working titles "Waterfront" and "Remember That Face", filming of The Mob was actually completed eight months before its release in the fall of 1951, with shooting occurring between January 11 and February 8, 1951. Promotion For three months after the initial distribution of The Mob in late September 1951, Broderick Crawford conducted an extensive 60-city tour across the United States to promote the production for Columbia Pictures. He made personal appearances at screenings of the film at various locations in New York; in Hartford, Connecticut; Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; Cleveland; St. Louis; Memphis; and in other cities in the Midwest and on the West Coast. During those visits, among other scheduled events and activities, it became routine for Crawford to give newspaper and radio interviews, appear on local television shows, attend special dinners and receptions, make goodwill visits to police precincts, and