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15 October 1959 (USA)
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By All Odds... It Stands Big And Breathless At The Top Of The List! more
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Dave Burke is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater, an white ex-convict...
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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Noir City: Chicago—Interview With Eddie Muller
(From Twitch. 29 July 2009, 4:04 PM, PDT)
Actor Robert Earl Jones, Father of James Earl Jones, Dies
(From WENN. 20 September 2006)
(From Twitch. 29 July 2009, 4:04 PM, PDT)
Actor Robert Earl Jones, Father of James Earl Jones, Dies
(From WENN. 20 September 2006)
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social crime drama
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Harry Belafonte | ... | Johnny Ingram |
 | Robert Ryan | ... | Earle Slater |
 | Shelley Winters | ... | Lorry |
 | Ed Begley | ... | Dave Burke |
 | Gloria Grahame | ... | Helen |
 | Will Kuluva | ... | Bacco |
| Kim Hamilton | ... | Ruth Ingram |
| Mae Barnes | ... | Annie |
 | Richard Bright | ... | Coco |
| Carmen De Lavallade | ... | Kittie |
| Lew Gallo | ... | Moriarty |
| Lois Thorne | ... | Edie Ingram |
| Wayne Rogers | ... | Soldier in bar |
| Zohra Lampert | ... | Girl in Bar |
| Allen Nourse | ... | Melton Police Chief |
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96 min | Canada:100 min (Ontario)
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Harry Belafonte starred in this, the first film-noir with a black protagonist. Belafonte selected Abraham Polonsky, who had written and directed a famous noir, Force of Evil (1948), to write the script. As a blacklisted writer Polonsky used a front, John O. Killens, a black novelist and friend of Belafonte's. (In 1997, the Writers Guild of America officially restored Polonsky's credit.)
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Factual errors: As Robert Ryan first drives the souped up Chevy wagon, we hear him grind the gears. Later, as we watch the speedometer climb to 100 MPH, we see the left side of the Powerglide shift quadrant on the steering column. Automatic transmissions don't make gear grinding noises.
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Johnny Ingram:
Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.
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Featured in Classified X (1998) (TV)
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All Men Are Evil
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Robert Wise's Odds Against Tomorrow grinds along to an inevitable conclusion, but offers a great performance by Ed Begley as Dave Burke, an ageing ex con looking to set up one last job. Filmed in black and white in winter in New York (both the city and a small-town upstate venue where the bank is) it has a drabness that permeates the whole film. Robert Ryan plays racist small-timer Earle Slater, who must team up with Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte) a jazz singer/vibraphonist who owes gambling debts to mobster Bacco played by Will Kuluva. Shelley Winters plays Slater's girlfriend Lorrie, a lonely woman with a steady job trying to buy his affection. Their relationship is based more on mutual need than love, her for sex and him for the money and company. Begley as Dave Burke must referee between his two cohorts. The racial tension between Slater and Ingram is carried to the extreme, and in the end it is what does in the heist. The subdued jazzy musical score combined with the bleak photography make this one moody movie. While the ending for Begley is pure drama, for Ryan and Belafonte it is too ironic for its own good, a clear example of the so-called message interfering with the plot, or maybe the message was the plot.