Directed by:
Phil KarlsonCinematography:
Lester WhiteComposer:
George DuningCast:
Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore, Kerwin Mathews, William Conrad, Jean Willes, Kathryn Grant, Hugh Sanders, Robert F. Simon, Tom Greenway (more)Plots(1)
Guy Madison and Kim Novak head an all-star cast in the film noir caper 5 Against the House, briskly directed by Phil Karlson. A group of college students join with Novak’s nightclub singer to rob Reno’s famous Harold’s Casino. As technical mastermind Ronnie (Kerwin Matthews) analyses the high-tech security system, traumatised war veteran Brick (Brian Keith) threatens blow the whole plan apart. A classic of the heist genre, 5 Against the House was an influence on Ocean’s 11 and Martin Scorsese’s Casino, and forced the real-life Harry’s to change the design of its security systems for fear of copycat robbery attempts. (Powerhouse Films)
(more)Cast
Guy Madison
USA
Best movies:
Blood of the Executioner (1963)
Since You Went Away (1944)
5 Against the House (1955)
Kim Novak
USA
Best movies:
Vertigo (1958)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Brian Keith
USA
Best movies:
The Parent Trap (1961)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Fort Dobbs (1958)
Alvy Moore
USA
Best movies:
Here Come the Littles (1985)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Kerwin Mathews
USA
Best movies:
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
OSS 117 Is Unleashed (1963)
Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
William Conrad
USA
Best movies:
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Jean Willes
USA
Best movies:
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
Kathryn Grant
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Hugh Sanders
USA
Best movies:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Storm Warning (1951)
Only the Valiant (1951)
Robert F. Simon
USA
Best movies:
One Man Mutiny (1955)
Compulsion (1959)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Tom Greenway
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Westward the Women (1951)
High Noon (1952)
John Zaremba
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Human Desire (1954)
John Larch
USA
Best movies:
Dirty Harry (1971)
War and Remembrance (1988) (series)
Hell to Eternity (1960)
Robert Sampson
USA
Best movies:
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Re-Animator (1985)
The Broken Land (1962)
George Cisar
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Mark Hanna
USA
Best movies:
Illegal (1955)
5 Against the House (1955)
Man Without a Star (1955)
Chuck Courtney
USA
Best movies:
El Dorado (1966)
Spartacus (1960)
The Lineup (1958)
Frank Gerstle
USA
Best movies:
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Thom Carney
USA
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
5 Against the House (1955)
Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)
Marjorie Stapp
USA