Directed by:
Lewis SeilerScreenplay:
Jo EisingerComposer:
David ButtolphCast:
Frank Lovejoy, Joan Weldon, Robert Arthur, Paul Picerni, Jerome Cowan, Dan Seymour, Bruno VeSota, Philip Carey, Monte Blue, Richard Garrick, Jack Mower (more)Plots(1)
After a frightened teenager is cut down by police bullets during a botched heist, a reporter investigates. The story leads him to prominent businessman John E. Merrick (Frank Lovejoy), the secret boss of the gambling ring that had the youth ensnared in a web of wrong-way bets. And now Merrick's carefully constructed world of family, upscale neighborhoods, country clubs and community respect begins to crumble around him. In this canny thriller, Lovejoy, the granite-jawed leading man in such '50s gems of paranoia as The Hitch-Hiker and Shack Out on 101, takes his tough-guy persona and gives it a gutsy twist, creating an unusual and provocative crime-caper protagonist: the crook with a conscience. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Frank Lovejoy
USA
Best movies:
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Julie (1956)
House of Wax (1953)
Joan Weldon
USA
Best movies:
Deep in My Heart (1954)
Them! (1954)
Riding Shotgun (1954)
Robert Arthur
USA
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Paul Picerni
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Apartment (1960)
Jerome Cowan
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Bernadette (1943)
Shall We Dance? (1937)
Dan Seymour
USA
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Bruno VeSota
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Ruth (1960)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
The Wild One (1953)
Philip Carey
USA
Best movies:
Dead Ringer (1964)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
Springfield Rifle (1952)
Monte Blue
USA
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Richard Garrick
Ireland
Best movies:
East of Eden (1955)
Un tramway nommé Désir (1951)
The Mountain (1956)
Jack Mower
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Don Beddoe
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Caged (1950)
Mike Lally
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Philo McCullough
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Love Crazy (1941)
Forbes Murray
Canada
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Vertigo (1958)
Fred Kelsey
USA
Best movies:
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Storm Warning (1951)
Love Is News (1937)
Frank Marlowe
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Paul Birch
USA
Best movies:
The Third Man (1949)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
Ray Bennett
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
Giant (1956)
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
Ralph Brooks
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
After the Thin Man (1936)