***SPOILERS*** You know right away that "Miami Expose" isn't pulling any punches when it's introduced by the mayor of the city Randy Christmas himself in the evils of illegal and mob controlled gambling with mobsters from all over the country flocking to town to set up shop. Our hero Sgt. and later Let. Burt Scott gets involved with all this when his boss and good friend at the Miami PD Capt. Harry Elkins gets himself killed investigating a murder at the Cromwell Hotel in downtown Miami. The murder besides Elkins' was Las Vages hood Joe Hodgers who together with local mob boss Louis "Big Louie" Ascot was planning to get control of the city's gambling establishment when it's hopefully, for them, voted into law in the upcoming November elections.
The one thing that went wrong in Hodgers' murder, besides Capt. Elkins getting snuffed, is that Hodgers' old lady Lila had checked out of town to Havana in order to lay low until the coast is clear, and the heats off, for her to return to the states! It's the person behind Rodgers' murder high powered criminal lawyer, as well as big time criminal himself, Ray Sheridan who desperately want's Lila iced, or killed, in order to keep her quiet about his big plans for the city of Miami before she talks or is forced to talk about them to the Miami police and State District Arttorney!
Lt. Scott who was planning to retire now goes all out to find Capt. Elkins' murderer that leads him to Havana Cuba where he tracks down Lila who's under mob boss "Big Louie" Ascot's protection. Surviving two murder attempts from Sheridan's top hit-man the bumbling Morrie Pell Lila is put into protective custody,with her death being faked by Lt. Scott and the police pathologist,in the far off snake and alligator infested Everglades swamps. That in order to get her to expose in a future trial Sheridan's criminal plans that he has in store for the city of Miami. It was Sheridan's big mistake in having one of his stooges Miami political hack Oliver Tubbs get to blackmail upstanding citizen and Miami king-maker Henry Treemont to go along with his plan by endorsing it. That in fact turns out to be both his and Tubbs' downfall.
***SPOILERS*** Documentary style movie that hits the spot in how the mob, or in the case of mobbed up lawyer Ray Sheridan, tries to get control of a city and then milks it for all it's worth. It was in Sheridan feeling that Lila was out of the picture, in her being killed, that made him trip himself up by having Treemont gunned down by his hit-man Morrie Pell that set the stage for his ultimate demise. That came in the end when Oliver Tubbs who finally saw the light in that Sheridan was setting him up to be the fall guy in his criminal operation if in fact it was uncovered who blew him away to cover his own behind.
P.S "Miami Expose" turned out to be veteran and popular character actor Edward Arnold's, who played Oliver Tubbs, last motion picture appearance. Arnold who looked like death warmed over in the movie passed away in April 1956 some five months before the film was released.
The one thing that went wrong in Hodgers' murder, besides Capt. Elkins getting snuffed, is that Hodgers' old lady Lila had checked out of town to Havana in order to lay low until the coast is clear, and the heats off, for her to return to the states! It's the person behind Rodgers' murder high powered criminal lawyer, as well as big time criminal himself, Ray Sheridan who desperately want's Lila iced, or killed, in order to keep her quiet about his big plans for the city of Miami before she talks or is forced to talk about them to the Miami police and State District Arttorney!
Lt. Scott who was planning to retire now goes all out to find Capt. Elkins' murderer that leads him to Havana Cuba where he tracks down Lila who's under mob boss "Big Louie" Ascot's protection. Surviving two murder attempts from Sheridan's top hit-man the bumbling Morrie Pell Lila is put into protective custody,with her death being faked by Lt. Scott and the police pathologist,in the far off snake and alligator infested Everglades swamps. That in order to get her to expose in a future trial Sheridan's criminal plans that he has in store for the city of Miami. It was Sheridan's big mistake in having one of his stooges Miami political hack Oliver Tubbs get to blackmail upstanding citizen and Miami king-maker Henry Treemont to go along with his plan by endorsing it. That in fact turns out to be both his and Tubbs' downfall.
***SPOILERS*** Documentary style movie that hits the spot in how the mob, or in the case of mobbed up lawyer Ray Sheridan, tries to get control of a city and then milks it for all it's worth. It was in Sheridan feeling that Lila was out of the picture, in her being killed, that made him trip himself up by having Treemont gunned down by his hit-man Morrie Pell that set the stage for his ultimate demise. That came in the end when Oliver Tubbs who finally saw the light in that Sheridan was setting him up to be the fall guy in his criminal operation if in fact it was uncovered who blew him away to cover his own behind.
P.S "Miami Expose" turned out to be veteran and popular character actor Edward Arnold's, who played Oliver Tubbs, last motion picture appearance. Arnold who looked like death warmed over in the movie passed away in April 1956 some five months before the film was released.