Four vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime.
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| Guy Madison | ... | Al Mercer | |
| Kim Novak | ... | Kay Greylek | |
| Brian Keith | ... | Brick | |
| Alvy Moore | ... | Roy | |
| Kerwin Mathews | ... | Ronnie | |
| William Conrad | ... | Eric Berg | |
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Jack Dimond | ... | Francis Spiegelbauer |
| Jean Willes | ... | Virginia | |
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Four college buddies enjoy a night at a Reno casino and overhear a cop saying that robbing the casino "cannot be done." That gets the brainiest rich kid among them thinking up a plan for the perfect robbery. He convinces the others to join in when they hear that it will only be a college hoax, his plan being to let the police know where the money is afterwards. The thing is, one of his friends has a head injury from the war, and has no intention of returning a dime. Written by Rone Barton Lokarr <sandbox2@ix.netcom.com>
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8 October 1955 (Albania) See more »Also Known As:
Five Against the House See more »Filming Locations:
Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios - 1438 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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(uncredited)
Written by Hal Hackady and Billy Mure
Sung by Kim Novak (dubbed by Jo Ann Greer)
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En route to Reno while riding in house trailer, thieves put on gloves and begin wiping down interior so their fingerprints can't be traced, but in following scenes, before they've reached destination, are no longer wearing gloves and are touching everything. See more »Quotes
Brick: [to a sexy woman who is gambling] I'm a stranger in town. Can you direct me to your house?See more »
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The Life of the Party(uncredited)
Written by Hal Hackady and Billy Mure
Sung by Kim Novak (dubbed by Jo Ann Greer)
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Kim Novak is of course terrific (she rarely phoned one in), and it's an interesting pre-star turn, meaning before PICNIC and VERTIGO, but the rest of the cast is pretty interesting, and particularly Brian Keith---Keith did a lot of 50's B-picture work that's worth watching, if you can find it. The real reason to see this picture is because it's a Phil Karlson. Karlson is one of those guys like Don Siegel, who came up in the studio system just before television. Early live TV produced people like Frankenheimer and Arthur Penn and Paddy Chayevsky, but there were already guys in the trenches like Siegel and Karlson, who got the chance to direct because they could do it quick and cheap, but make a picture look like it didn't come from Poverty Row. (See, for example, Clint Eastwood's PLAY MISTY FOR ME. Eastwood got his shot by rock-bottom budgeting, a lesson he might have learned from Siegel.) Karlson is due for a re-evaluation, along with, say, Budd Boetticher and Burt Kennedy. Siegel seems to be getting his due, not that he couldn't use an occasional boost. But watch this, and maybe THE PHENIX CITY STORY (not a misspelling), and tell me Karlson can't do it tense.