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At top, newspaperman William Hidden finds his search fur a witness to testify against the crime ring brings an interesting encounter. At left, below, the fatally wounded Holden is consoled by Alexis Smith.
THE TURNING POINT
There have been other films based on the Congressional investigation of crime syndicates, a topic that proved its audience appeal by emerging as television's greatest individual attraction, but "Tlic Turning Point" seems to have come closest to the fascination found in uncovering the crime empires.
Warren Duff's dramatic screenplay, under William Dieterle's direction, gives a stark and compelling picture of an average American city caught in the grip of a $200,000,000 crime octopus. The protagonists of the drama are Edmond O'Bried as chief of the special investigating comittee; William Holden. his cynical newspaperman pal who reluctantly — and, finally fatally — aids his cleanup; Alexis Smith as O'Brien's girl Friday; Tom Tully as the investigator's father, a policeman involved in the syndicate, and Ed Begley as the head of the crime ring.
As the investigation progresses, various characters are brought into the camera's focus — members of gangland, a brassy blonde, witnesses terified by fear of reprisal — but the story hurtles into its top drama when Tully is killed to prevent him from testifying. That becomes the "turning point" in the investigation, as the criminals are relentlessly tracked down and a key witness puts an end to the syndicate's activities. Holden, however, also meets the gangsters' vengeance in the process and is killed.