Port of New York (1949) [Film Noir] [Drama]

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“Port of New York” is a 1949 film shot in semidocumentary style. The film is notable for being Yul Brynner’s first movie. He had not begun shaving his hair yet. The film, which is very similar to T-Men (1947), was shot on location in New York City. The movie was directed by László Benedek with cinematography by George E. Diskant.

The film tells the story of a two federal agents, one from Customs and one from Narcotics, out to stop the distribution of opium that came in on a ship in the Port of New York but was smuggled off by drug dealers. The leader of the drug dealers is the suave Vicola (Brynner).

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Directed by László Benedek, produced by Aubrey Schenck, written by Eugene Ling (screenplay) and Bert Murray (story), starring Scott Brady as Michael ‘Mickey’ Waters, Richard Rober as Jim Flannery, K.T. Stevens as Toni Cardell and Yul Brynner as Paul Vicola.

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Source: “Port of New York (film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 14 March 2013. Web. 31 March 2013. Port of New York (film).

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23 Replies to “Port of New York (1949) [Film Noir] [Drama]”

  1. This movie reminds me of the old series "Dragnet" making the Feds look so great and Hero-Like.  The US Coast Guard was under the Treasury Dept. until the early 1970s following it's service in Vietnam and into the Transportation Dept.  And moved again in the early 2000s into the Homeland Security Gestapo Dept.  The only difference now and then in the Coast Guard is it's 35,000 employees are paid by different departments – but still doing the exact same job.

  3. I love Film Noir, but this picture despite having great locations and Yul Brenner was mostly a sleepfest and about 30 minutes too long. But I guess that doesn't matter. I would have snoozed through it anyway. However I watched it all, which leaves me with a question. Why, near the end of the movie, didn't the dame finger the cop right away. what did I miss?

  6. Stop the commercials ? Can't. It's a disease that kills time. No antidote for the greedy opportunists. Part of Capitalism that sometimes considers people as just off the shelf items. If the ink stays black then it must be OK. Figure that out.

  7. all that difficulty getting the drugs in the us …just walk across the Rio Grande…they will open arms to you……give you everything you need and make you a citizen …I can't believe it after watching this movie..with the night boat pick up and all the secrecy 

  12. I think they did an episode of the radio show, "This Is Your FBI" on this same case. I enjoyed the movie, the would make a great double feature with "He Walked By Night".

  14. The Feds sure didn't give a crap about the 4th or 5th Amendments to or how the Constitution might have inhibited their "investigation" which clearly included arrests without probable cause, warrantless entries and seizures, a couple of burglaries and the usual "enhanced interrogation techniques"

  15. OMG !!!! Incredible views of NYC 67 years ago complete with an elevated Canal St. station . It was probably part of the now demolished Third Ave El.

  17. Was the ship in the beginning of the film the United States, America or The Constitution? I was just curious. Very good film and nice to see New York featured in an old movie. Thanks for showing this.

  19. A little trivia: the protagonist in this flick is an actor named Scott Brady (real name: Gerry Tierney). Scott had a brother, Lawrence Tierney, who appeared in an episode of Seinfeld titled The Jacket. Lawrence played Elaine Benes' father, a real crabby character (the Seinfeld cast said he was crabby on and off camera, not that there is anything wrong with that)

  23. I really think this could have made a really good weekly TV series ?
    for instance if anybody remembers the show : [ Don"t ]
    The Streets of San Francisco, [ You – ]
    but the only exception 25 years earlier [ – Agree – ]

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