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Sam Jaffe
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Sam Jaffe is a Philadelphia-based associate editor at The Scientist magazine, a publication for life science Ph.D.'s. He covers issues related to the history, ethics and philosophy of science, as well as research breakthroughs. He began his career a month after graduating from Wake Forest University in 1991 when he did reporting that led to the governor of North Carolina commuting the death penalty sentence of a man. He attended NYU to attain a joint master's degree in Near East Studies and Journalism. He has worked at The Wall Street Journal, SmartMoney, Bloomberg and BusinessWeek. He teaches journalism at Temple University.
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Doc Erwin or simply Doc (Sam Jaffe) is a criminal mastermind who has recently been released from the prison. He is planning one final job before retiring. He arrives in town looking for seed money. A caricature of a police chief (John McIntire) is out to nab him before he scores.
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In 1976, ABC newsman Sam Jaffe reported seeing Cronkite's name on a White House list of reporters who had worked for the CIA. Cronkite angrily denied the accusation, and confronted then-CIA director George H.W. Bush, demanding that Bush name any CBS staffers who had actually been CIA operatives. Bush, of course, wouldn't name names, but a week later, Cronkite's newscast reported that at least two former CBS reporters had secretly worked for the spy agency. Ironically, CIA officials later claimed that Jaffe himself had "performed clandestine tasks" for the CIA. And beyond Jaffe's claim, there's no evidence Cronkite was ever a spook.
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Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe) blows into town with a caper that the local hoods can't resist. Bookie Cobb (Marc Lawrence) sets up the deal with big-time crooked lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich (Louis Calhern) and hires hunchbacked diner owner Gus Minissi (James Whitmore) as the getaway driver. Riedenschneider personally chooses Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden) as the muscle for the job, intrigued by the man's sense of personal honor. Rounding out the gang is Louis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso), a family man who's ... a top safecracker. Unfortunately for all, Emmerich is hatching a doublecross with his debt collector Bob Brannom (Brad Dexter) and plans to take the loot and skip with his mistress Angela Phinlay (Marilyn Monroe).
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When German accented criminal legend 'Doc' Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), known in the underworld as the 'brain,' gets out of prison on parole, the non-violent elderly man has a fool-proof plan for a million-dollar jewelry robbery. The elaborate plan is financially staked by crooked playboy lawyer Alonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern). Doc recruits a small gang of petty criminals, all from the unnamed urban area (supposedly Cincinnati). Dix (Sterling Hayden, in his first starring role) is the ruffian of the gang, a struggling small-time hood who sees the heist as an opportunity to own a horse farm in Kentucky. The hunchbacked cafe owner Gus (James Whitmore), with the heart of gold, is hired to be the driver; Louis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso) is the professional safecracker; and a sniveling loudmouth bookie named Cobby (Marc Lawrence) will be the "paymaster" of the operation, as the nearly-bankrupt Alonzo doesn't have the cash to bankroll the heist.
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Alonzo D. Emmerich (Louis Calhern), a stylish but corrupt lawyer, bankrolls an elaborate jewel heist masterminded by Doc Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe) and a crew of professional criminals, including Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden), Gus Ninissi (James Whitmore), and Louis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso). Emmerich... plans to double cross the gang as soon as the heist is completed but his strategy fails when Handley murders a private detective hired to sabotage the fencing operation. This action sets off a chain of events which fragments the group and plays havoc with their getaway plans.
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