Shakedown (1950)

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder On the strength of his sheer tenacity he gets a job with a major newspaper and its not long before hes made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss Nick Palmer into allowing himself to be photographed Palmer takes him under his wing but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss Colton against one another