**SPOILERS** Suffering from four bullet wounds cop killer Marty Rome, Richard Conte, had just about had it. with Marty to be given the last rites as he suddenly and miraculously recovers from his wounds. Marty is sent to the prison hospital to get well and healthy enough to be able to be executed in the state electric chair for first degree murder. It seemed that Marty got some help in his recovery when his sweet and innocent girlfriend Teena, Debra Paget, snuck into his not so well guarded hospital room in order to exchange sweet nothings with him. That was enough to bring Marty back from the dead.
We have Marty, after his miraculous recovery, try get to the bottom of the de Grazia murder case whom he was to take the rap for. This sleazy shyster lawyer W.A Niles (Barry Kroeger), who was defending Mrs. de Grazias actual killer Leggy White, calmly and unannounced strolled into the hospital emergency ward and tried to get a death bed confession out of Marty.
Marty first escaping from prison and then breaking into Niles, whom he ends up murdering, office takes the both missing and stolen jewels of Mrs de Grazia, by Niels client Leggy White, out of his office safe. Marty is also helped in his criminal adventures by both his younger brother Tony, Tommy Cook, and former girlfriend Brenda, Shelly Winters, in his eluding the police and getting medical attention for his gun-shot wounds.
Suffering from four gun-shot wounds and needing immediate medical attention Brenda gets this quack doctor from the neighborhood Dr. Vernoff ,Konstantin Shayne, Marty is again brought back to life, just when you thought he was about to kick off for good. Marty goes back in trying to find his sweetheart Teena who's being kept safely hidden from the police by Nurse Pruett, Betty Grade. Whom the sweet taking and womanizing Marty charmed into making a fugitive from the law, for what? Teena wasn't wanted by the cops for any crime that she committed like Marty is!
The other half of the story in "Cry of the City" has to do with Marty's boyhood friend from the neighborhood police Let. Candella, Victor Mature. Let. Candella is out to get Marty and bring him to justice or the electric chair. Still Let. Candella is just too nice to hurt Marty's mom Mr. Roma, Mimi Aguglia, in doing that. Candella want's Marty to give himself up instead so he can voluntarily be tried convicted and executed. With nobody having to be blamed for his demise but himself, fat chance!
We get the inevitable ending with Marty about to check out of the country with his love Teena whom he contacts in the neighborhood church. Only to have Let. Cardella now also gravely hurt from getting shot by one of Marty's criminal associates: the 250 pound masseuse Rose Givens,Hope Emerson. Rose is also involved in the Mrs de Grazia murder robbery and only helped Marty in order to get the jewels from that crime that Marty has hidden in a subway public locker.
The very predictable ending has Marty get what he so rightly deserves. At the same time Marty's girlfriend Teena and younger brother Tony, who looked up to the career hoodlum and cop-killer, see what a lowlife and creep he really was. Hopefully they'll see that no matter how clever and likable as well as lovable he was Marty only looked out for himself. He used everyone, even getting them involved in his crimes, to further his own selfish gaols which in the end lead the smirking and self-assured Marty into an early grave.
We have Marty, after his miraculous recovery, try get to the bottom of the de Grazia murder case whom he was to take the rap for. This sleazy shyster lawyer W.A Niles (Barry Kroeger), who was defending Mrs. de Grazias actual killer Leggy White, calmly and unannounced strolled into the hospital emergency ward and tried to get a death bed confession out of Marty.
Marty first escaping from prison and then breaking into Niles, whom he ends up murdering, office takes the both missing and stolen jewels of Mrs de Grazia, by Niels client Leggy White, out of his office safe. Marty is also helped in his criminal adventures by both his younger brother Tony, Tommy Cook, and former girlfriend Brenda, Shelly Winters, in his eluding the police and getting medical attention for his gun-shot wounds.
Suffering from four gun-shot wounds and needing immediate medical attention Brenda gets this quack doctor from the neighborhood Dr. Vernoff ,Konstantin Shayne, Marty is again brought back to life, just when you thought he was about to kick off for good. Marty goes back in trying to find his sweetheart Teena who's being kept safely hidden from the police by Nurse Pruett, Betty Grade. Whom the sweet taking and womanizing Marty charmed into making a fugitive from the law, for what? Teena wasn't wanted by the cops for any crime that she committed like Marty is!
The other half of the story in "Cry of the City" has to do with Marty's boyhood friend from the neighborhood police Let. Candella, Victor Mature. Let. Candella is out to get Marty and bring him to justice or the electric chair. Still Let. Candella is just too nice to hurt Marty's mom Mr. Roma, Mimi Aguglia, in doing that. Candella want's Marty to give himself up instead so he can voluntarily be tried convicted and executed. With nobody having to be blamed for his demise but himself, fat chance!
We get the inevitable ending with Marty about to check out of the country with his love Teena whom he contacts in the neighborhood church. Only to have Let. Cardella now also gravely hurt from getting shot by one of Marty's criminal associates: the 250 pound masseuse Rose Givens,Hope Emerson. Rose is also involved in the Mrs de Grazia murder robbery and only helped Marty in order to get the jewels from that crime that Marty has hidden in a subway public locker.
The very predictable ending has Marty get what he so rightly deserves. At the same time Marty's girlfriend Teena and younger brother Tony, who looked up to the career hoodlum and cop-killer, see what a lowlife and creep he really was. Hopefully they'll see that no matter how clever and likable as well as lovable he was Marty only looked out for himself. He used everyone, even getting them involved in his crimes, to further his own selfish gaols which in the end lead the smirking and self-assured Marty into an early grave.