Eadie. Eadie visits Turkus and becomes an informant as does Joey. He then confronts Reles, who has been arrested, in his cell, and threatens to testify against him. In fear of this testimony, Reles agrees to testify against Lepke in exchange for reduced charges. He provides a detailed account of the activities of Murder, Inc. Turkus puts Joey and Reles in protective custody and hides them at the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island. Eadie comes to visit Joey, imploring him to testify against Lepke. Joey is reluctant, fearing the mob will kill Eadie in revenge. Despondent, Eadie slips her police escort and wanders alone on the beachfront, where she is murdered. Later that night, Reles is thrown out the window by an assassin. Joey avenges his wife's death by testifying against Lepke, who is executed. Cast Stuart Whitman as Joey Collins May Britt as Eadie Collins Henry Morgan as Burton Turkus Peter Falk as Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles David J. Stewart as Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter Simon Oakland as Lt. Detective William Flaherty Tobin Sarah Vaughan as nightclub singer Morey Amsterdam as Walter Sage Eli Mintz as Joe Rosen Joseph Bernard as Mendy Weiss Warren Finnerty as Bug Workman Vincent Gardenia as Lazlo Helen Waters as Mrs. Rose Corsi Leon B. Stevens as Loughran Howard Smith as Albert Anastasia (credited as Howard I. Smith) The film was the screen debut of Sylvia Miles and Sarah Vaughan. Seymour Cassel appears as an unbilled extra. Original book Twentieth Century-Fox based Murder, Inc. on a 1951 book of the same title by Burton Turkus, former district attorney of New York, and Sid Feder. It is similar in style to the popular TV series The Untouchables, which may have inspired the studio to make the movie. The story of the Murder, Inc. crime group was first told on the screen in the Warner Brothers film The Enforcer, a semi-fictional film that was released as Murder, Inc. overseas. The film starred Humphrey Bogart, in his last role for the studio, as a crusading district attorney in the mold of Turkus. A Lepke-type character was played by Everett Sloane. Ted De Corsia played a character loosely based on Reles. The films differ in that Murder, Inc. is factual and dealt with a Mafia kingpin's establishment of a contract murder organization within that framework, and The Enforcer is fictional and had a freelance group willing to work