The Human Jungle

1954 · 1h 22m · 5.6

Crime, Thriller

Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.

Joseph M. Newman

Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey, Lamont Johnson, Patrick Waltz, Chuck Connors, Claude Akins, Paula Raymond, Emile Meyer, Henry Kulky

striptease, nightclub, stripper, film noir, racketeers, police investigation, beat cop, female stripping, hard-boiled dame, dancing girls