Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler, John Baer, Adele Jergens, Beverly Garland, Damian O’Flynn, George E. Stone, Dan Riss
The mid-1950’s saw a streak of B noirs exposing the spread of organized crime to second-tier American cities (Las Vegas, Houston, New Orleans, Detroit, Portland) with the stronger examples directed by former stock actor Fred S. Sears. In Sears’s The Miami Story, Barry Sullivan plays Mick Flagg, a widower and former gangster who went straight years earlier and now lives with his young son in Indiana. When mob boss and Biscayne Club owner Tony Brill (Luther Adler) takes over Miami and begins eliminating competitors in cold blood, local law enforcement and business leaders recruit Flagg out of retirement to wriggle his way into Brill’s society, which he does by befriending Holly Abbott (Beverly Garland), the sister of Brill’s girlfriend Gwen (Adele Jergens); Holly’s ultimate hospitalization for getting her brains bashed in toughens Flagg’s resolve to destroy the syndicate. John Baer plays Ted Delacorte, Brill’s personal hit man whose loyalties Flagg hopes to chip away.
By Michael Bayer
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Mob boss Tony Brill (Luther Adler) relaxes with his boys at the Biscayne Club.
Mick Flagg (Barry Sullivan) tries to convince Ted Delacorte (John Baer) that Tony is disloyal.
