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
Larry J. Blake
USA
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Kit Guard
Denmark
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Charles Watts
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Paul Maxey
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Grandon Rhodes
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Frank Richards
USA
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Howard Negley
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Tom Wilson
USA
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Sam Finn
Russian Empire
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Fay Roope
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Sarah Selby
USA
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Henry Corden
Canada
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William Vedder
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Vic Perrin
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Charles Ferguson
USA
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Thomas Martin
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