Force Of Evil
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A looped scene featuring John Garfield answering the telephone was sourced from this film and used as a backdrop during "Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings" in 2024. Similarly, a scene from the end of the film featured during Bigmouth Strikes Again.
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Force of Evil is a 1948 American film noir starring John Garfield and Beatrice Pearson and directed by Abraham Polonsky. It was adapted by Polonsky and Ira Wolfert from Wolfert's novel Tucker's People. Polonsky had been a screenwriter for the boxing film Body and Soul (1947), in which Garfield had also played the male lead. In 1994, Force of Evil was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".