The hoodlums were supposed to be part of organized crime (see Mafia) but there wasn't an Italian name in the bunch. All the names sound like these guys just came over on the Mayflower:
Max Troy
Lee Reinhardt
Chester Davitt
Miller Starkey
Guess Jack Webb didn't want to offend anyone.
Reinhardt?
shareYes of course, Reinhardt prepared the Zweibach aboard the Mayflower, a.k.a. Die Maiblume.
I was a bit distressed that the OP only lamented the absence of Italian names in the screenplay, as if they're the only real criminals. In L.A., where Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, among others of different ethnic and religious groups, held criminal sway back when, the Mafia was not as powerful a criminal element as back East.
Still, it's true, a more varied ethnic mix of crooks would have served this picture well. But then, this was the Ike-onically homogeneous America of 1954.
Stupid post. White people with vanilla names are involved in organized crime too.
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