Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
- gun
- carnival
- film noir
- sharpshooter
- payroll robbery
- based on short story
- gun violence
- crime spree
- gun shooting
- gun culture
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Peggy Cummins
Annie Laurie Starr
John Dall
Bart Tare
Berry Kroeger
Packett
Morris Carnovsky
Judge Willoughby
- Anabel Shaw — Ruby Tare Flagler
- Harry Lewis — Sheriff Clyde Boston
- Nedrick Young — Dave Allister
- Trevor Bardette — Sheriff Boston
- Mickey Little — Bart Tare (Age 7)
- Russ Tamblyn — Bart Tare (Age 14)
- Paul Frison — Clyde Boston (Age 14)
- David Bair — Dave Allister (Child)
- Stanley Prager — Bluey-Bluey
- Virginia Farmer — Miss Wynn
- Anne O'Neal — Miss Augustine Sifert
- Directed
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Written
- Dalton Trumbo, Millard Kaufman, MacKinlay Kantor
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 311 ratings
- Studio
- King Brothers Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
