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Overview
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Writers (WGA):
William P. McGivern (novel)
Abraham Polonsky (screenplay) (front John O. Killens) ...
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Release Date:
15 October 1959 (USA) more
Tagline:
By All Odds... It Stands Big And Breathless At The Top Of The List! more
Plot:
Dave Burke is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater, an white ex-convict... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
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)
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crime noir with race conflict more (33 total)
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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Runtime:
96 min | Canada:100 min (Ontario)
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Mono (RCA)
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Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:Approved (PCA #19371) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
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The last black and white film to be made by Robert Wise, and also his last in standard aspect ratio. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Johnny is rudely interrupting the female singer, she says "Harry, please", using Belafonte's real name instead of his character's name. more
Quotes:
Bocco: I'll kill you and everything you own! more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Classified X (1998) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
My Baby's Not Around more
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Good low budget heist film. Ryan's character is one of the ugliest portrayals of a white racist in film. Belafonte's character is one of the most multi-faceted and complex potrayals of an African American up until that time, and the performance doesn't date at all. Wise keeps the pacing taut and the suspense high. There's great black and white location shooting in New York City and upstate in Hudson, New York. Other things of interest: it's written by black-listed Abraham Polonsky under a pseudonym (check out his great "Force of Evil"); Cicely Tyson appears in a bit part; Richard Bright portrays a pretty overt homosexual for the time; early use of a zoom lens and infrared photography; edited by Dede Allen; some interiors shot at the old Gold Medal Studios in the Bronx.