24-10-2014, 05:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 24-10-2014, 06:48 PM by Albert Doyle.)
I saw the movie All Through The Night on Turner Classic Movies. The plot has Bogart's New York City nightclub mafia teaming up with government in order to break up a Nazi spy ring in New York. This is a rare movie that is almost never shown. It struck me that the reason this movie is not aired too often is because it captures a very real teaming up of US intelligence with the mafia in America during World War Two. A similar reference is shown in Hitchcock's movie Saboteur when the Nazi saboteur Frank Frye glances at the alleged Nazi handywork of the ship Normandie sunk at a Brooklyn dock. The truth is the Normandie sinking was one of OSS's first false flags where they got the mafia to sink the ship in order to create fear in the American public.
This teaming of US Intel with the mob is something that the government did not want to advertise hence the noticeable lack of any public screening of All Through The Night in recent times. The movie was active 1942 era WWII propaganda designed to get real mafia members on board with the war effort. This effort was highly successful and continued on after WWII. It was a little too obvious so the movie was swept under the rug. I recommend catching this movie because it captures an honest swath of OSS executing Operation UNDERWORLD through Hollywood propaganda.
This teaming of US Intel with the mob is something that the government did not want to advertise hence the noticeable lack of any public screening of All Through The Night in recent times. The movie was active 1942 era WWII propaganda designed to get real mafia members on board with the war effort. This effort was highly successful and continued on after WWII. It was a little too obvious so the movie was swept under the rug. I recommend catching this movie because it captures an honest swath of OSS executing Operation UNDERWORLD through Hollywood propaganda.