Force of Evil,which starred John Garfield, was written by Abraham Polonsky and Ira Wolfert and marked Polonsky«s directorial debut.  This highly regarded noir-style movie transcends the gangster-movie genre and is a taut and beautifully written moral drama with obvious political overtones. 

This publication of the complete script of Force of Evil blends the shooting script (written before the film was shot) and the continuity script (the transcription of the dialogue and visual elements of the finished film) along with extensive notes that detail the various script changes. It also contains a short biographical interview with Polonsky, a lengthy critical analysis of the film, a filmography and a bibliography. 

One of the great films of the modem American cinema.  --Andrew Sarris 

Force of Evil was the first film I can remember seeing that applied directly to a world that I knew and saw. . . . The dialogue itself is quite special. . . . It led one British critic to exclaim as he was watching it, "My God, its written in blank verse. " It is quite extraordinary. . . . Its poetry creates a hyper-reality . . . The moral drama has almost a mythic scale.  --Martin Scorsese