Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
- chicago
- illinois
- marriage
- musical
- great depression
- teacher
- traveling salesman
- 1930s
The bill
- John McMartin — Mr. Warner
- John Karlen — The Detective
- Jay Garner — The Banker
- Robert Fitch — Al
- Tommy Rall — Ed
- Eliska Krupka — The Blind Girl
- Christopher Walken — Tom
- Francis X. McCarthy — The Bartender
- Raleigh Bond — Mr. Barrett
- Gloria LeRoy — A Prostitute
- Nancy Parsons — The Old Whore
- Directed
- Herbert Ross
- Written
- Dennis Potter
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 108 ratings
- Studio
- Hera Productions, SLM Production Group, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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.
