Directed by:
Raoul WalshCinematography:
Sidney HickoxCast:
Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Bruce Bennett, John Ridgely, Don McGuire, Warren Douglas, Craig Stevens, William Edmunds, Alan Hale (more)Plots(1)
Torch singer Petey Brown is beautiful and smart. The beautiful gets her in trouble. She'll need all of the smart to get out of it in this bluesy, boozy noir salute to tough dames in tough times. On a holiday visit to her family in the waning days of World War II, Petey expects a merry Christmas. Instead she gets a tangled web of mobsters, cheating wives, war-traumatized vets and the kind of love that grabs hold fast and goes wrong faster. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ida Lupino
UK
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
High Sierra (1941)
Robert Alda
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
Andrea King
France
Best movies:
Prescription: Murder (1968) (TV movie)
Band of Angels (1957)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Martha Vickers
USA
Best movies:
The Big Sleep (1946)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
Bruce Bennett
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Sudden Fear (1952)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
John Ridgely
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Don McGuire
USA
Best movies:
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Possessed (1947)
The Tall Stranger (1957)
Warren Douglas
USA
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Air Force (1943)
City for Conquest (1940)
Craig Stevens
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
William Edmunds
Italy
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Casablanca (1942)
Alan Hale
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Robin Hood (1922)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Leonard Bremen
USA
Best movies:
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
The Front Page (1974)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Monte Blue
USA
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Florence Bates
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Rebecca (1940)
The Tall Target (1951)
Patricia Barry
USA
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
Humoresque (1946)
Dolores Moran
USA
Best movies:
Count the Hours (1953)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Silver Lode (1954)
Jack Mower
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Frank Ferguson
USA
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Ben Welden
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Big Sleep (1946)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)