5/10
Miami Vice
25 June 2017
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Your usual 1950's crime movie-With a city in its title- that has ex-con Mick Flagg, Barry Sullivan, recruited by the Miami Police Department and citizens group to go undercover as a mobster in order to get the goods on mob boss Tony Brill, Luther Adler, who's in charge of the entire Miami & South Florida crime syndicate. It's Flagg who was framed on a murder charge, that he was found innocent of, by Brill 12 years ago that more then motivated him to do it. Flagg got help for one of Brill's bar girls, who hated his guts, Holly Abbott played by Beverly Garland who ended up being busted up and bed ridden-with a cracked skull-by one of Brill's men Ted Delacorte, John Baer, for her efforts.

Working together with the Miami and Cuban police Flagg has Brill's casino bugged with the latest state of the art video and T.V equipment to get the goods on him in how he's cheating his paying customers on the crap card and roulette tables as well as laundering money for the mob. There's a falling out between Brill and his top henchman Delacrote who feels that their being set up by each other only to find out that it was Flagg that was doing the setting up.

***SPOILERS****Sneaking on Brill's yacht Flagg's disarms and dumps Delacorte into Miami Bay and rescued his 10 year old son Gil,David Kasday,who was kidnapped by Brill's goon from a Northern Flordia orange grove with a wetting in his pants, in him knowing that the gig is up ,Brill meekly surrenders to the police with out a shot. That after him boasting like the late John Dillinger that he'll never be taken alive!P.S The movie "Miami Story" reunited both Luther Adler and Beverly Garland in the first film that they were in since the 1950 film noir classic "D.O.A".
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