"A series of seemingly senseless, motiveless murders have been committed. The Assistant D.A. (Humphrey Bogart) uncovers the existence of Murders, Inc., headed by Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane), who has organized crime as a big business--hiring killers, selling murder, making a profit. The familiar noir world of shifting values and inexplicable events (with a large dose of fifties paranoia) here refers to a state of things, rather than a state of mind. Produced about the time that Senator Estes Kefauver's committee was investigating organized crime, it is the first film of the 1950s to posit the existence of the Syndicate. And yet the film's topicality derives less from its examination of crime than from its depiction of the Assistant D.A.'s frustrated efforts to enforce the law. Told primarily in flashbacks to the past, The Enforcer was a caution to the present that as long as crime pays, justice will be blind. Directed by Bretaigne Windust, with the uncredited direction of Raoul Walsh, The Enforcer has the realistic feel typical of Warner Brothers' crime films, and some familiar noir faces. Cinematography is by Robert Burks, who photographed many of Hitchcock's films (see May 24)." Kathy Geritz