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Writers:
Ivan Shane (writer)
Maxwell Shane (writer)
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Release Date:
31 July 1953 (Finland) more
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Tagline:
THE 10-HOUR MANHUNT...that tore New York apart!
Plot:
Peter, a WW II 'displaced person' about to be deported jumps ship in New York harbor in an effort to... more | add synopsis
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1 win more
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Immigration adventure gone bad... more (6 total)

Cast

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Vittorio Gassman ... Peter Kaban

Gloria Grahame ... Maggie Summers
Ann Robinson ... Nancy
Douglas Spencer ... Inspector Bailey
Robin Raymond ... Tanya aka Bella Zakoyla

Jerry Paris ... Tom
Elizabeth Slifer ... Mrs. Hinckley, the Landlady
Richard Reeves ... Eddie Hinckley
Joe Turkel ... Freddie Zakoyla (as Joseph Turkel)
Else Neft ... Mrs. Zakoyla
Michael Fox ... Inspector Toomey
Nesdon Booth ... Monroe, the Taxi Driver (as Ned Booth)
Kathleen Freeman ... Zelda, the Fat Woman with Coat
Juney Ellis ... Girl friend
Jack Teagarden ... Himself - Musician
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Additional Details

Runtime:
82 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

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In 1953, Columbia Pictures distributed this film on a double bill with Jack McCall Desperado (1953) starring George Montgomery. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: During his first solo, trombonist Jack Teagarden's hand movements don't match the music on the soundtrack. more
Quotes:
Mrs. Zakoyla: Don't forget, your dead father was a lousy foreigner! more

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Immigration adventure gone bad..., 14 August 2009
7/10
Author: ksf-2 from southwest US

Peter ( Vittorio Gassman) and Maggie (Gloria Grahame) show what can happen to immigrants that arrive here without proper papers. He has a loophole that he thinks he can use to be admitted to the country, but without enough information, this plan isn't going to work... Grahame had JUST made "the Bad and the Beautiful, which won her an Oscar; she often played the rough, gritty, sexy type that seemed to find trouble of some sort. Keep an eye out for Jerry Paris (we all know him as Dick Van Dyke's next door neighbor/dentist), directed a whole lot of TV shows in the 1960s and 1970s. Here he plays "Tom", someone from Peter's past who can help him if he can be located. Also some great photography (real or stock footage...?) of the crowded, rough and tumble, glizty well-lit Times Square from the 1950s, before Disney bought the whole block. A good, well told story, even if there are a couple of unbelievable moments here and there, like in the taxi cab.... Written and directed by Maxwell Shane, who mostly stuck to writing, but also produced and directed a few things from 1930 - 1960.

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