Force of Evil 
John Garfield stars in this film noir classic: an indictment of avaricious capitalism set on the borderline between the criminal underworld and decent society. Garfield plays a shady Wall Street attorney who joins forces with a mobster (Roy Roberts) to take over the numbers racket in New York City, even if it risks the safety of Garfield’s own brother (Thomas Gomez). The directorial debut of Abraham Polonsky, working from his original script, Force of Evil captures the bold expressionism of Manhattan, culminating in a fateful rendezvous by the George Washington Bridge. Polonsky, though not a member of the Hollywood Ten, was himself blacklisted. 

He Ran All the Way 
Garfield made his final film appearance in this claustrophobic blacklist classic. The actor plays a petty thief whose botched robbery sends him running into a public swimming pool for cover. Seducing his way into the tenement flat of fellow swimmer Shelley Winters, Garfield holds her hostage in this proto-home invasion thriller. Director John Berry went into exile, while the film’s co-screenwriters, Dalton Trumbo and Hugo Butler, were both blacklisted. Garfield passed away one year after this film’s release from a heart attack. He was 39.